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[pasithea]

You know... Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER the projected cost of ITER is only about 20B USD. Sure, it's an experimental project, not meant for production use but seriously... For the cost of Bush's war for Oil so far, we could have taken 10 or 15 stabs at harnessing fusion reactions for power and had money left over.

If we hadn't wasted our money in Iraq, we could have been well on our way to quite possibly finding a permanent solution to power needs. Thanks again Bush. You're a GREAT leader. You know... If you REALLY wanted to 'beat' Iraq, the only resource they really have is oil. If the entire world had cheap power from another source, they'd be defeated utterly.

Instead you dicked around and threw away our money fighting a war you can't win. The EU is carrying on the ITER research and there's a good chance they'll get it to work and that means France will 'defeat' Iraq. Not you. And cheap/clean power will first be under the control of the EU, not the US. We'll be left behind. All thanks to you. Congrats on that.

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[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

80B? That's a fraction of the president's first request for money to fund this stupid war. The current bill is at nearly 500B and it's now projected by most economists that the total bill will be closer to 1.2 TRILLION dollars. That's $1,200,000,000,000 That would pay my rent for the next hundred thousand years. It's an obscene amount of money, and what do we have to show for it with the way it's been spent?

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

I hadn't been able to find good numbers on it at the time, these numbers are mind boggling. ^o.o^