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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
If anyone wants a little perspective about the amount of money we have spent fighting in & "reconstructing" Iraq, I read it's currently somewhere around $450billion. The annual budget for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the two big nuclear weapons labs in this country, is about $1.6billion. You do the math. The money we've burned in Iraq alone (let alone all our other military deployments) could have built & operated several premiere new national research labs for DECADES. Think about the kind of energy research that could have been done at those facilities.
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I like looking at it this way: the war in Iraq since 2003 has cost every man, woman, and child in America approximately $1,500
each. And then I get all pissed off.