<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/23bb24a0-7470-48bc-8064-72ec8d6ca231/3FA50CE2-F036-4638-849D-EDCAF72F501E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html" href="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html" style="font-size: 11px;">warnewsupdates.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/img/9A90F89D-ED89-4012-86AE-21F0DEEC8A82" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html"><DIV>WASHINGTON - The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War's expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html"><DIV><A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_go_co/war_costs">Read more</A> ....</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html">If we accept the premise that 9/11 is that the event that pushed everything into motion .... (just as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand pushed Europe into the First World War) ..... a push that resulted in the invasion of Afghanistan, fears of WMDs in the hands of terrorists, fears of Saddam Hussein that resulted in Gulf War II and the occupation of Iraq, an expansion of the conflict in Afghanistan that now involves Pakistan (a nuclear power with weapons that can fall into the wrong hands) .....</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html"> the question I have is how much did the execution of 9/11 cost.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-wars-total-cost-nearing-vietnams.html"><DIV>What did it cost Al Qaeda to start all of this?</DIV><BR /><DIV>The answer is already known.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The cost to execute 9/11 by Al Qaeda has been estimated <A href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Exec.htm">to be $400,000 to $500,000</A>.</DIV><BR />Ponder that.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3FA50CE2-F036-4638-849D-EDCAF72F501E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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