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To: stockman_scott who wrote (177928)12/16/2005 4:03:07 AM
From: geode00  Respond to of 281500
 
The bill for Iraq/Afghanistan: 1/2 trillion dollars.

It's hard to tell exactly where all this money is and how much has been spent and how much has been stolen. It's still a pretty big chunk of change and I don't think it counts the replacement cost for the hardware we'll leave there.

Why didn't the US make a deal with the Kurds for oil?