06-29-2008, 05:19 PM
I recently read an article in Newsweek (Liberal leaning, I know) that said with the 1 trillion dollars spent in Iraq we could have repaired every school, bridge, and road. Enough money to create universal healthcare (I know, create, NOT fund), and to start Manhattan projects on alternative energy. Certainly this should be taken with a grain of salt, but you can't say the war has justified what developments we could have made. That's not even counting the lives lost and soldiers injured.