Can you say $1,000,000,000,000?
Interesting article comparing annual budgets for the EPA, Department of Education, National Science Foundation and the National Cancer Institute in relation to the war.
"Feb. 4, 2007 The price tag for the Iraq War is now estimated at $700 billion in direct costs and perhaps twice that much when indirect expenditures are included. Cost estimates vary Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz puts the total cost at more than $2 trillion but let's be conservative and say it's only $1 trillion (in today's dollars)."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Who...C-RSSFeeds0312
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." GWB
Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000