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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (521903)1/11/2004 8:42:06 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 769667
 
And there will always be critics.

There should be, the idea that dissenters during times of war are traitors is an erroneous idea as old as the hills. Dissenters are ESPECIALLY important during war time no matter which party or which ideology is waging the war.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953 "

costofwar.com

Interesting website, you can compare the cost of the war with other public funding options.

They're using numbers from the Congressional Budget Office although they haven't updated the numbers in awhile.