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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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In addition to the waste of people's time and effort, there's also the probable future waste of potential good, as we racked up enough of a debt that our interest payments are becoming even more noticeable. The longer we keep doing that, the more debt we have, the more we have to pay interest, the less money we could be spending on local programs.

(not to suggest we want to have no debt, just that at a certain point it starts to interfere, and we're getting there, if not already there)