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Old 04-23-2008, 10:04 AM   #100 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by garysher View Post
Make that 12 BILLION (with a B) dollars every month being spent on the Iraq "war".

That could be paying for a lot of schools, teachers salaries, hospitals, roads, bridges, refineries etc, etc.

Not hard to see why most European nations opposed this war.

The defence budget for 2009 is $515 BILLION, excluding additional Iraq War spending bills.

Eventually the American people will have to decide if all this is really necessary to sustain "freedom".
Instead, part of that money is being spent on ME