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On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was going to ask the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2004, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since before then, to the end of September, 2007, the United States has dedicated approx

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buckheadd
March 22, 2008, 10:21 a.m.
Wow... how stupid can bush get... so much money! There could have been such a better use of all that money!!! AMERICAN infrastructure.. AMERICAN homeland security.... AMERICAN economy could have been so much better, with banks finally giving loans to people who really need it!
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wildman6557
March 22, 2008, 10:40 p.m.
Don't worry. All this spending will cause hyper inflation and soon it won't be that much in real terms....
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ETproductions
March 22, 2008, 11:58 p.m.
Wow! Very graphic. But that is outdated. Assuming Bush's present funding request is approved, which it almost certainly will be, we are up to half a trillion in direct costs now. With long term care for veterans and replacement of worn equipment, that mushrooms to 3 trillion, meaning Bush's current debt of over 9 trillion will top out above $12 trillion.
We haven't payed for ANY of this. The great lie is about all we could have done if only we had invested this much money here. It was never ours to invest. We have sold America to foreign investors to fund this inane, harmful war that never needed to be fought. And we are leaving our children to pay for it.
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richtech
March 23, 2008, 11:18 a.m.
Want to walk to the moon?
If you read the article completely to the end, and then do the math, we could build a land bridge to the moon :)
It is about 237,000 miles to the moon on the average. So if 315 billion dollars is 19,887 miles tall, then it would only be about 3.8 trillion dollars to reach the moon....
Seems to me, with our current debt of $12 trillion, it would more than cover the distance there and back a few times.
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rightfromwrong
March 25, 2008, 10:12 p.m.
Figures on the war run from 600B to 3 trillion .... knowing Bush the way we do, the latter is more likely the truth. 911 was an inside job so please watch 911Mysteries and Loose change at question911.com