Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>...it's only soldier's lives...<<<


And money. 28 YEARS worth of annual homeland security budgets have been wasted in Iraq to date.


"Feb. 4, 2007 — The price tag for the Iraq War is now estimated at $700 billion in direct costs and perhaps twice that much when indirect expenditures are included. Cost estimates vary — Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz puts the total cost at more than $2 trillion — but let's be conservative and say it's only $1 trillion (in today's dollars).

The cost of the war can also be expressed as approximately 28 HS's, where HS, the annual budget for the Department of Homeland Security, is about $35 billion. Really securing the ports and chemical plants would have only eaten up a few of these HS's. A few more could have been usefully spent in Afghanistan."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=2844304&page=2