Check out this article from the New York Times about what we could really spend $1.2 trillion on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/bu...in&oref=slogin

if the cost is 200 billion annually, and we've been in the war since summer 2003, the total cost so far is about 700 billion. where does 1.2 trillion come from?

and i wonder how much of the 200 billion is from "increased cost of oil as a result of the war" which is arguable, maybe even false.

besides, you can't put a price on having a friend in the middle east and an ally in the war on terror. think bigger.

p.s. no membership to view that article, so forgive me if there's explantions in the b.s. times that i didn't see.....

You can read it from fark.com....

They are also including all of the disability and medical care costs that will be added to the total amount of the war, as well as military rebuilding, and then increased oil costs at the end.

http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?i=...6oref%3Dslogin

Try that one.

Oh, and PS... I am thinking bigger. What good is having a war resolved and then not able to take care of future generations? You can't keep an empire without someone to take care of it once you die.

You're a farker?! Cool!

FYI all of those figures are according to leonhardt@nytimes.com

I thank the great "spirit in the sky" every day that you are in the minority opinion timmy... I have a hunch you'll disagree with most if not all the points made in the following article...Oh and timmy, until you get your news from sources other than FOX News or the Conservative Voice I suggest you just sit back and let all the moderate thinking, open minded people handle putting this country back together. Your people have done a fine job of dismantling it with your ignorant thoughts and deeds...