[lendaddy]

I picked up an interesting little tidbit last night. The war has currently cost around $200 billion. This is a big number, I agree. However to say was it worth it to get rid of Sadaam etc.. assumes that it was free to contain him. The number budgeted to contain Sadaam over the next ten years was $300 billion! So I agree the actual cost of the war is an unknown right now, but the difference in cost is not very large, and atleast this way he is gone. At the end of the ten years we don't have to worry about him lobbbing a nuke etc... Another interesting point was that Sadaam was DEEPLY in debt and in danger of losing his debt service. This would have given us one very desperate dictator, no longer a problem now. Interesting points to be sure, and maybe they heal some wounds of those who only care how much this has cost? Pay some now or alot later.