One hundred billion.
One hundred thousand million.

That is a lot, in most contexts. Astronomical even.

Apparently, if you ask nicely, know the right people, you can have it, in cash.
US dollars. Off budget, no questions asked, no supervision, no audits.

What could you do with that?

Continued...

I found this blog post on Scienceblogs.com. It gives you some perspective on the cost of this war.

100,000,000,000

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.
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Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history.

The 90min. series is available for viewing on PBS.

Frontline: The Dark Side | PBS