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After four years, America's cost for the war in Iraq has reached nearly $500 billion - more than the total for the Korean War and nearly as much as 12 years in Vietnam, adjusting for inflation. The ultimate cost could reach $1 trillion or more.

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jaern
March 18, 2007, 11:58 a.m.
Seems the VA system of health care for returning injured soldiers is more like Walmart.
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jimcarravallah
March 18, 2007, 9:58 a.m.
The funding of the war -- real costs in terms of money and human capital deferred into the future, is yet another way the administration has obscured its ineptitude.
When the figurehead "leader of the free world" staged the landing of an aircraft on the Abraham Lincoln to declare an end to "major combat operations," he spoke truth about defeating the rag tag standing army of Iraq.
Like assessing the true cost of the war before engaging in it, his handlers hadn't taken into account that defeating the standing (and demoralized) army was not winning the hearts of the Iraqi people.
Most intelligent people learn by their mistakes, or by reviewing the mistakes of others -- in this case the mistake of Vietnam as recorded in history.
The figurehead, his handlers, and apologist / propagandists for the most part hid out from Vietnam, and apparently were too stupid to understand how it, and Iraq, will be recorded in history.
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Beau7890
March 18, 2007, 10:04 a.m.
Though the article speaks of the way the war is being funded through supplementals, it I wish it had addressed the REASON that the president has been trying to fund this war that way, rather than including funds in the annual budget.
The only one I can imagine is that it's much easier to turn denial of supplementals into political negatives--members of Congress who vote against supplementals to fund this war look much more as though they're "against supporting the troops" than they'd appear if they voted against the enormous and multi-faceted yearly budget bill.
This method of funding, like every other tactic used by the Bush administration, is a ploy designed for political gain.
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saneman
March 18, 2007, 10:46 a.m.
Professor Davis speaks about the cost of having to contain Hussein, but doesn't speak about the reasons why Iraq attacked Kuwait. The US oil companies were slant drilling into the oil wells from Kuwait into Iraq, a process commonly practiced in Texas for years. If you owned property and your neighbor was slant drilling into your property, I wonder how many people would pat their neighbors on their backs instead of doing something about it.
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Nixon7
March 18, 2007, 11:27 a.m.
The war in Iraq is a colonial occupation being perpetrated by criminal war profiteers who should be executed for treason, not spreading their lies on "Meet the Press" and occupying positions of power and authority in the executive branch of the US Republic.
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jaern
March 18, 2007, 11:54 a.m.
The problem was the Bush Administration sold the American public on the BEST case scenario of a war taking 6-8 weeks, they never fathomed a WORST case scenario of 6-8 years.