Nation Building...The Bush Way

[SHRED]

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Not this Nation dummy...HELL NO!

You want affordable health insurance, good schools, and a clean environment?
GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!
What are you...some kind of godless-communist-socialist-tree hugging-traitor?
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THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ: FOOTING THE BILL
War costs are hitting historic proportions
The price tag for the Iraq conflict and overall effort against terrorism is expected to surpass Vietnam's next year.
By Joel Havemann
Times Staff Writer

January 14, 2007

WASHINGTON — By the time the Vietnam war ended in 1975, it had become America's longest war, shadowed the legacies of four presidents, killed 58,000 Americans along with many thousands more Vietnamese, and cost the U.S. more than $660 billion in today's dollars.

By the time the bill for World War II passed the $600-billion mark, in mid-1943, the United States had driven German forces out of North Africa, devastated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Midway, and launched the vast offensives that would liberate Europe and the South Pacific.

The Iraq war is far smaller and narrower than those conflicts, and it has not extended beyond the tenure of a single president. But its price tag is beginning to reach historic proportions, and the budgetary "burn rate" for Iraq may be greater than in some periods in past wars.

If U.S. involvement continues on the current scale, the funding for the Iraq war — combined with the conflict in Afghanistan and other foreign fronts in the war on terrorism — is projected to surpass this country's Vietnam spending next year.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-warcost14jan14,0,3340422.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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1. First you destroy the target country to the tune of $2 Trillion.

Then you re build it to the tune of another $2 Trillion.

Much of that skimmed off by you and your pals.

Both the target country and America destroyed.

Isn't nation building great?

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2. The greatest tax dollar theft...

...of our time, if not our history.

[cassiepriam]

3. Yes the theft of the American Treasury now and for generations to come.

The biggest crime in our history as a nation?