"John H" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:55:54 -0800, "CalifBill"
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:37:08 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"John H" wrote in message
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Obama could have stopped paying for Iraq in two weeks. Any future
costs are his baby.
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You have to realize that those who like to claim a 2 trillion dollar
cost
for the war in Iraq are using creative accounting techniques so suit
their
agendas. So far it has cost about 640-650 billion. (not that that's
exactly chump change).

The 2 trillion is a "projected cost" of maintaining the military in
combat
operations through 2019, a date that both Bush and Obama rejected.


What happens when you factor in the costs of medical care for
returning vets, and keeping their families afloat? Tack on another
Trillion, easily - not to mention the loss of a lot of thousands of
productive lives, who will now be using resources rather than creating
them. Maybe tack on 2 trillion.


A large part of the ending of FDR's depression was the millions of men
taken out of the 24% unemployment workforce and sent overseas to fight,
At
about $60 a month.


And by 1965 that had gone all the way up to $72 per month!
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John H


....and you were grossly overpaid then!