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Iraq war cost: $6 trillion. What else could have been done?
The Los Angeles Times ^
| March 18, 2013
| David Lazarus
Posted on 03/19/2013 6:39:57 AM PDT by algernon_garnock
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To: algernon_garnock
$1.7 trillion is a drop in the bucket by today’s standard.
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:41:09 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
To: algernon_garnock
“that never existed”
Tell that to the Kurds
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:45:00 AM PDT
by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: icwhatudo
Well....think of all the benefits we got out of it.....
Go ahead.....
Wake me when you are done.
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:46:48 AM PDT
by
OldArmy52
(The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
To: algernon_garnock
I didn't realize that we had a draft of all new soldiers to fight the Iraq war causing this huge uptick in benefits payouts.
What a load of crap.
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:50:17 AM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
To: algernon_garnock
A false headline built on false premises promoted by an overtly left-wing university institute. Next....
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:51:05 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: algernon_garnock
I find that hard to believe especially since the cost of the war at the end of the the Bush administration was publicized at about $900 billion.
To: algernon_garnock
>>> .... $1.7 trillion so far, with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. Those costs could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years
10 year price tag for the Iraq War (so far)
How about a REAL study on the 'war on poverty', eh?
How many trillions down the waste already? And what the projected gazillions (hundreds of trillions) over the next 40 years on today's Obama Phone youth mobs?
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:52:24 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: algernon_garnock
Not a problem.
GW told us the Iraqi’s would pay for it.
Just waiting for the check to clear, right?
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:53:33 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: OldArmy52
Well....think of all the benefits we got out of it..... A stronger Iran?
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:54:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: algernon_garnock
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posted on
03/19/2013 6:57:31 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: icwhatudo
To: TomGuy
Let’s ask the Christians in Iraq if they feel better off.
Mind you, I was fine with taking out Saddam, but the aftermath was a complete foul up.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:05:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: algernon_garnock
Next time in the Mid-East, just arm both sides, and let them bash each other’s brains out.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:08:03 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: algernon_garnock
The LibTards will feel stupid when the jihadists take over Iraq and dig up all those WMDs that “never existed,” but actually exist under the sand in places we never looked.
To: PGR88
Next time in the Mid-East, just arm both sides, and let them bash each others brains out.It worked in the 80s with the Iran-Iraq war.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:09:49 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: algernon_garnock
That’s a lot o’ green spent for delivering an Arab client state to Iran.
What a friggin’ disaster...
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:10:07 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
To: dfwgator
hind site of a Monday mornin quarterback is realy not relevant.
Saddam is gone. The fruitbasket is turning over.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:10:39 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
To: bert
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:11:33 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: algernon_garnock
There sure seems to be a lot of articles coming out of the left stream media the past week about Bush and Iraq. Why, it’s almost like they are trying to distract everyone from Obama’s foreign policy failures. I think it’s pre-emptive journalism to try and cover for Obama because something awful is ready to come out about the Democrats and the Middle East.
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posted on
03/19/2013 7:13:07 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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