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"We will pay for housing, health care, social services, utilities, roads, schools, jails, and food in Iraq, leaving American taxpayers with less money to provide these things for themselves at home. We will saddle future generations with billions in government debt. The question of whether Iraq is worth this much to us is one lawmakers should answer now by refusing to approve another nickel for nation building...."

What this dolt refuses to recognize is that this is a grand experiment in reshaping the culture of the middle east, starting with Iraq.

You bet we can use this money at home, but it may be better served re-building Iraq rather than using it to bury our dead or rebuild lower Manhattan (or Chicago, or LA for that matter)in the future. How much will that cost?

That is a likely outcome if we withdraw and isolate ourselves from WWIII.

Granted this is an experiment, it may fail. Is it worth $87 Billion, it is to me.

If you honestly believe national security is resting on the success of building a welfare state in a country 10,000 miles away, I wonder if there is any hope for this country.

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Granted this is an experiment, it may fail. Is it worth $87 Billion, it is to me.

Then you won't mind footing the bill? Open your wallet and use your money for any kind of experiment you care to. Blackbird.

That assumes, of course, that continuing to maintain a presence in the Middle East and it's religious and ethnic conflicts will reduce the chance of further attacks against the US and weren't the reasons for 9-11 in the first place.