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SpookyWriter
11-14-2007, 01:26 AM
Incredible. I'm speechless. Where are they getting all this money?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_go_co/war_costs


WASHINGTON - The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion — roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a new report by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.

blacbird
11-14-2007, 01:41 AM
Bake sales.

caw

SpookyWriter
11-14-2007, 01:47 AM
Would that include Alaskan King Crab?

WarrenP
11-14-2007, 02:03 AM
Incredible. I'm speechless. Where are they getting all this money?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_go_co/war_costs

Steve Forbes and I pay most of it. ;)

InfinityGoddess
11-15-2007, 12:11 AM
And Bush claims that domestic spending costs too much. Such a hypocrite.

SpookyWriter
11-15-2007, 12:13 AM
Interesting enough that this thread didn't raise the temperature in the room. Hmmm....

rubarbb
11-15-2007, 12:17 AM
You think that just maybe the war is fueling (no pun intended) the rise in oil prices...and look what it's doing to our economy... How do you put a price on all our troops killed or wounded? So who's really winning the war?