[kach22i]

Originally posted by techweenie
Talk about disingenuous.

When you spend $200 billion that you DO NOT HAVE, that's called borrowing. Ever since the Reagan administration, this fiction about spending money we don't have costing no more than 'face value' has been swallowed by the gullible press, people bad at math, and Republican syncophants.

With debt service, the ultimate cost of the Iraq war may well exceed $600 billion.

But it's incredibly naive to think 800+ American lives are worth much less than that, and they were expended for what? Containment of a toothless petty tyrant only a nervous nellie would consider a threat to the US? And then there's that other cost -- the cost of the goodwill and respect the US enjoyed before killing 10,000 Iraqis and imprisoning an equal number.

Good point.