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yellowwood Donating Member (550 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-10 06:17 AM
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$1,006,684,616,033
I caught this moving figure on the National Priorities Project. The cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. If Americans don't care enough about the human cost of these wars, maybe they will care about this.
$1,006,684,616,033
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

Interactive: What your state pays
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/taxday2008/59.pdf

Where do your personal taxes go?
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/taxchart/2010
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-10 06:18 AM
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1. but the wars will be over next year
:eyes:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-10 06:22 AM
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2. Boy, That could have bought a lot of ponies
never mind everything else this country needs.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-10 06:31 AM
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3. It's an exact match for the dollar figure...
...assigned to the mineral wealth in Afghanistan. Coincidence?
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-10 07:06 AM
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4. We are war slaves and WE have killed a lot of INNOCENT people.
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