Cakewalkmongering.
Via DefenseTech, a great coffee-break blog, this chunk of perspective on the Cakewalk in Iraq:
With $166 billion spent or requested, Bush’s war spending in 2003 and 2004 already exceeds the inflation-adjusted costs of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and the Persian Gulf War combined, according to a study by Yale University economist William D. Nordhaus. The Iraq war approaches the $191 billion inflation-adjusted cost of World War I.
Or perhaps this number will resonate a little more?
To put it in perspective, Bush hopes to spend more in Iraq and Afghanistan than all 50 states say they need—$78 billion—to finance the budget shortfalls they anticipate for 2004.
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