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NPR is reporting that the real sum is nearing $500 billion. I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with NPR over some unknown interest group which you were afraid to even link.
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I expected better of you Oerdin, you seemed one of the smarter posters on this forum - no wonder I'm so smug when you guys appear to know so little about your own congressional agencies and attempt to disguise your own laziness/ignorance/feeblemindedness* by saying I'm the one who's afraid to provide a link that someone with even the most rudimentary GOOGLE skills could track down at the touch of a button...Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with NPR over some unknown interest group which you were afraid to even link.
Like shooting fish in a barrel...
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NPR isn't exactly a parrot for the admin. Whatever, 500 billion, 811 billion... pretty soon we're talking about real money!
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This misadventure could cost one dollar and it still wouldn't have been worth it.Lime roots and treachery!
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Maybe they were only estimating for current spending, which is fairly close to the Congress estimates of $439bn and not the thirteen year prediction?Originally posted by Arrian
NPR isn't exactly a parrot for the admin. Whatever, 500 billion, 811 billion... pretty soon we're talking about real money!
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But then Oerdin didn't make that distinction or provide a link, which is rather surprising considering he appeared to be criticising me for the same thing...
What does NPR stand for anyway, 'National Partnership for Reinventing Government Reports'?
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National Public Radio, MOBIUS. Hence no link. He heard it on the radio.
While it may sound like it from the name, it is most certainly NOT a government mouthpiece. Conservatives hate it, as a matter of fact. It's really quite centrist (in Europe it might even be center-right).
Whatever. Half a trillion, a trillion... it's a huge sum either way. And that's not even the half of it.
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Well then, these things are usually woefully underestimated...Originally posted by Arrian
Whatever. Half a trillion, a trillion... it's a huge sum either way. And that's not even the half of it.
I seem to remember mentioning figures of $200bn shortly after GWB declared a 'cessation to hostilities' and a number of people here laughed at me...
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Well, laughing at you par for the course.
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I'm still curious about the reasons for the divergence between the US and UK figures. How can the UK provide 7% of the forces at 1% of the cost?Comment
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Exactly why I have such fun gloating...Originally posted by Arrian
Well, laughing at you par for the course.
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Re: US war costs 'could hit $811bn'
Pah! I already owe 50 times that anyway.Originally posted by MOBIUS
That works out to roughly $2,717.43 for every man, woman and child in the US -I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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That's merely the direct cost of the war. The long term cost of the war is likely to be over two trillion dollars.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Mobius, that was only semi-literate. If you read your own links you'd see (from the BBC article) that Congress has only estimated the cost at $368bn while the $811 billion figure, which you have quoted, is a guess-timate for if things continue 10 years out.Originally posted by MOBIUS
I expected better of you Oerdin, you seemed one of the smarter posters on this forum - no wonder I'm so smug when you guys appear to know so little about your own congressional agencies and attempt to disguise your own laziness/ignorance/feeblemindedness* by saying I'm the one who's afraid to provide a link that someone with even the most rudimentary GOOGLE skills could track down at the touch of a button...
Like shooting fish in a barrel...
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No one can accurately project war cost ten years out and it is highly unlikely that the war will still be going on ten years out. Even if you subtract the first three years and say that they're only projecting 7 years into the future it is still a bunch of pig crap. Please read your own links before posting such rubbish.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Oh I'm sorry, I thought the title of this thread was could hit...
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