The $2 Trillion Nightmare

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04herbert.html

On Thursday, the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer, conducted a public examination of the costs of the war. The witnesses included the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz (who believes the overall costs of the war, not just the cost to taxpayers, will

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[reanimated]

unbelievable. THIS is how the terrorists win.

[paradox0220]

Agree completely. I wish we would have taken a lion's share of that money and invested in new energy sources (and energy storage technology) to break the oil dependency that got us into this mess to start with.

Plus, as the US became the world leader in new energy sources (probably green, renewable, etc), we could reap great monetary rewards by selling products/technology to other countries. Win all around.

[goulo]

Mission accomplished! Stay the course!

It's interesting and sad how most people ignore the often quite clear statements of al-Qaeda et al (e.g. that we should quit interfering in the Middle East and setting up puppet governments and starting wars - pretty reasonable grievances, if you ask me), and instead they just continue to blather that the terrorists "hate us for our freedom" and will invade us and force us all to speak Arabic etc.