If you do a full accounting, the US has probably spent a trillion dollars in the war on terror. Not just money spent on the invasions, but also on the security enhancements. Now, Halibuton has got a huge chunk of that, so Bush and Co won't think of that as cost. More a benefit.
But the US taxpayer is taking it up the ass. And the deficit is huge, so the future generations can enjoy getting fucked as well.
Now, Sept 11 was a bitch. Something like 3,500 people died, and a couple of towers were destoyed. And the Pentagon had a small missle size hole punched into it.
Almost 3,000 military personnel have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about 20,000 more are missing significant body parts.
Iraq is in chaos, as is Afghanistan.
What do you have to show for the trillion, and all the deaths and maimings?
bin Laden is still at large.
Perhaps *not* responding to Sept 11, would have been the more profitable decision.
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Paul
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