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Don't you have to weigh that against costs in dollars, costs in lives, impact (positive or negative) on other international relations, etc.? In the abstract, sure, it's in our interest to have less genocidal dictatorts (my new favorite word) ruining their own countries. But there's a cost, and you gotta consider whether or not the goal is worth it, don't you?

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You had juxtaposed the domestic economy with foreign dictators, implying you were pointing to damage to the US economy. She was asking if deposing foreign dictators was in the US interest if it were ruinous to the US economy.

Yes, Saddam was bad for the Iraqi economy, but was deposing Saddam good for the US economy?

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FEWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This war has been incredibly cheap in lives and in money. Of course it doesn't seem to cheap to the families of men and women that have died, but we lose ten times the number of people every year in car accidents on American roads than have died in Iraq. In dollar terms the war has been very cheap. Our budget is over two trillion every years. The war hasn't even cost one tenth of one years outlay.

Considering the amount of money and lives it has taken to unseat other genocidal dictators, this war was very cheap.

As far as the effect of the US economy, does anyone really know if the war was a negative or a positive? If you think you know the answer to that, you know more than any economist in the United States today.

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What James Garner film is your Avatar from?

BTW: my father just got the complete Rockford files on DVD for father's day.

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How many lives were lost in the pursuit of combatting the pernicious affects of the Clintons in the 90s? By comparison this Iraq thing is de minimis.

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Cool. If I am channel surfing, I will *always* stop on an episode of the Rockford Files -- irregardless (ha!) of whether it has 5 minutes or 55 minutes left.

The short answer to your question -- I don't know. From a PM conversation Not Bob had with an Very Hot Imaginary Internet Chick Friend last year:

Not Bob: I dunno what movie it came from -- the file name of the JPEG had "The Great Escape" in it, but I don't think that that is correct (though the time is probably pretty close). I just loved the look on his face.

Her: Hmm, a google search provided this link http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/jamesgarner.html It looks like he made 2 movies with Doris Day the same year (1963) as "The Great Escape." Checking on imdb, it seems the movie I meant was "Move Over Darling" although I think I've also seen the other one too.

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Not according to, oh, pretty much every administration this country has ever had.

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I take it you are now in favor of invading Russia, North Korea, Syria, Burma, Egypt and half of the countries in Africa, right?

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No; I was just thinking that Less would make a great genocidal dictatort.

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I think that would have to be DICKatort.

In fact, I would be willing to bet the Less has already committed some torts with that particular appendage.

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Um, it was land-based? Well, sea-based. ETA surface-based. Surface-to-air. That's the phrase I was looking for.

But I don't really know from weaponry.

ETA For N. Korean Missile, U.S. Defense Is Hit or Miss

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Point isn't whether we'd get it for sure, that would be the point V. a country with hundreds of missiles. point w/ Korea is to create the impression that we might get it. Deterent to them striking.

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When Colin Powell took out those little toy birds and made those little dying-bird calls ("peep! peep!") in front of the UN General Assembly to demonstrate how Saddam was destroying the Iraqi wetlands, I thought to myself, "we have never embarked, as a nation, upon a nobler or more justified enterprise." I am not ashamed to say there was a tear in my eye.