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The Opportunity Costs of the Iraq War - Center for American Progress
by adamist at 6:46 pm EDT, Sep 16, 2004

] The question lingers: Could the $144.4 billion spent on
] Iraq been better used to protect the American people from
] terrorist threats? The Center for American Progress
] offers this answer.

What follows is a long list of measures that would have made Americans safer. This is the true cost of the Iraq War.

The Opportunity Costs of the Iraq War
by Acidus at 12:44 pm EDT, Sep 18, 2004

] The question lingers: Could the $144.4 billion spent on
] Iraq been better used to protect the American people from
] terrorist threats? The Center for American Progress
] offers this answer.

The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research group. Without taking sides for or against the war in Iraq, they examine how the cost of the war (now some 144 BILLON) could have been used to fund security inititives here in the US. Interestingly enough, most of these inititives are things recommended by the 9/11 Commitee, that the Bush Administration has underfunded or completely ignored.

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