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Old 03-03-2009, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by herkhorse



[color="Purple"]If you spent a million dollars a day...

every single day since Jesus was born...

you still wouldn't have spent as much...

as Congress did in the Stimulus Bill.

Now, let's quadruple that amount...

and we'll have the cost of the Iraq War.[/
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and your source is?

$526 billion: Cost of combat operations to date.

$1.2 trillion to $1.7 trillion: Estimated Afghanistan and Iraq combat costs through 2017.

since we'll be out in 16 mos the estimation would obviously change to the lower.

published March of 08

San Fransisco Chronicle today, Zachary Coile
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