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Old Mar 2nd, 2008, 10:18 PM       
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Originally Posted by Tadao View Post
Statements like :
"The money being spent on the war each week would be enough to wipe out illiteracy around the world, he said.

Just a few days' funding would be enough to provide health insurance for US children who were not covered, he said."

Are so reckless.
I think it's meant more to give some meaning to a number that is pretty unimaginable. If you had 100 million dollars and spent one dollar every second, you would come back for more in about 3 years. Doing the same with 100 billion dollars would take you 3 millenia, about the length of recorded history. We're talking 30 times this last amount, which is a pretty enormous figure.

There's no denying that this "police action" is costing the US over 50 times the Bush Admin's original figures. And the figure is still growing.
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