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by dmcarls
3/19/13 8:22:10 PM
3/19/13 9:16:58 PM
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New A dubious Ten Year Anniversary
"Last week the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University released a new set of estimates. The numbers are summarized on the web site of the institute’s Cost of War project and detailed in a paper by Professor Neta C. Crawford. The institute’s estimate of the total cost of the two wars now comes to just under $4 trillion.

It wasn’t supposed to cost so much"


http://www.economoni...nd-afghanistan-2/

Here's NPR on the plight of veterans seeking treatment (32 min)

http://www.npr.org/2...ty-other-benefits

And so it goes. Some ten year olds (5th graders) have known nothing but war.
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Post #372,765
by Ashton
3/21/13 6:28:54 PM
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New UK *IS* opening that Entire Can of Diseased Worms. 'Bless'
their Democratic un-Stupid Selves!
Seems, simply that: the MAGNITUDE of this Quagmire defies any 'collection of the Things on That List.'

UK (ever a quite more civilized country than BananaTown) has just recently embarked upon a *REAL* investigation to be followed by:
attempting to fit Some Sorts of punishments to the Perps' egos + hubristic-Errors Made.
[once formally Recognized, of course: they are civilized ... a word unfamiliar to untutored US Hottentots.]

As for here: I have slim hopes; will settle for only a tiny Victory:
That the Entire Mess emanated from [what shall forever be Known, Universally as]
The Cheney Shogunate ©Rand
     Charlie Pierce on 'The Butcher's Bill' (..for Iraq) - (Ashton) - (2) - March 10, 2013, 06:42:36 AM EDT
         A dubious Ten Year Anniversary - (dmcarls) - (1) - March 19, 2013, 09:16:58 PM EDT
             UK *IS* opening that Entire Can of Diseased Worms. 'Bless' - (Ashton) - March 21, 2013, 06:28:54 PM EDT

Seriously, for someone who shows some signs of intelligence, the consistency with which you misunderstand anything inconvenient to you is quite amazing.
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