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Originally Posted by Guest
We could save TRILLIONS - yes TRILLIONS - and by the way, those are trillions we didn't have - by not starting wars in the guise of looking for non existent WMD's.
Wanna take a guess how much interest we have to pay on those trillions we borrowed?
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Sorry to disagree with you, but it wasn't trillions that went into the Iraq war. It was billions. Not even close the money spent on entitlements. As far as the WMD's are concerned, since you weren't there, I guess the liberals got to you regarding the lack of them. I was there when almost half a million bodies were dug up in a mass grave. People that were killed by WMD in the form of poisonous gas. Sadaam moved his WMDs by the time we got there. Anyone guess where they went? Haven't you been reading/listening to the news lately?
But, getting back to the war cost. Even rounding it off in years, it is still less than a trillion. When the total defense budget was 3 trillion, those billions were not as much as some are portraying it. Funny how the ones that are screaming in congress about the cost, are the same ones that voted to go to war in the first place. I think it's time to drop the myth that there were no WMD's in Iraq. Just because they weren't found by the time we got there, does not make them non-existant. Kind of like how Iran will have hidden their nukes by the time they can be inspected. We have to give them 24 days notice before inspection. Although, they also get to inspect themselves in some circumstances.