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	Iraq: Cost in $$$

Bodark

10-26-2007 1:35 PM

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iraq, war on terror, afghanistan

Bodark says:

Too bad we could have used some of that money to actually combat terrorism instead of getting bogged down in the Neocon's nation-building quagmire in Iraq.

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