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To: jttmab who wrote (185642)	4/25/2006 6:26:03 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This was just the first report that came up when I googled. I read another one a few months back by a conservative who used to be part of Bush economic advisors (I can't remember which Bush) anyway she is now a finance professor and teaches budgeting. She too came up with around 2T$ price tag. Her method was to err on the side of Bush and assume that the rate of injuries and pay outs to veterans is the same as the last Gulf War. Obviously it should be a lot higher now given that troops spend a lot more time in Iraq now than in the first gulf war and that their injuries are often more serious. Still, just using the same percentages, she showed that the cost would be in 13-digit range! How do your niece and her family feel about the war?