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[pmb]

Y'know, we could have just given every Iraqi citizen $37 336.58 and we'd still be ahead by 3,000 american lives and 500,000 iraqi lives. A trillion is a very large number. I bet that, for a flat rate of 37k per capita, we could have gotten the entire Iraqi army to overthrow Saddam all on their own.

Or, as an alternate view, you and I and everyone we know in this country has paid or will pay 4,000 dollars each for this useless war.

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[Y]ou and I and everyone we know in this country has paid or will pay 4,000 dollars each for this useless war.

Because much of the money will have been borrowed, people who haven't had a chance to vote yet--even be born yet--will be paying for it. Yet, the administration wants more tax cuts. Basically, what they're saying is that we should spread the costs to future generations rather than take the costs on ourselves. I think it makes the whole thing much, much worse.