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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
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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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.
