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SobaViolence
02-06-2007, 11:21 AM
of course Bush is gonna fuck everything worse...but this excerpt made me stop in my tracks...

In the run-up to the invasion in 2003, the Pentagon's projected estimate of the total cost of the war was $50bn. A White House economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, was fired by President Bush when he suggested that the total cost would be $200bn.

The New York Times noted that the cost of the war would have paid for universal healthcare in the US, nursery education for all three and four-year-olds in the country, immunisation for children round the world against a host of diseases, and still leave about half of the money left over.

The Pentagon has long complained that it is overstretched. Mr Bush wants to raise its budget from $600.3bn to $624.6bn for 2008 - about 20% of the total budget.

the world is fucked... (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0206-04.htm)

Abe Froman
02-06-2007, 12:36 PM
But this issue is so much more important. If we get clinical and go cold hearted economics, seems like the money would have saved a lot more lives being spent on the above programs than going into Iraq. But the goverment would have never spent that amount of money on anything but war. War always gets the ok and unlimited funds.

Bob
02-06-2007, 01:40 PM
and we're losing!

D_Raay
02-06-2007, 02:48 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6333707.stm