Bush commutes Libby sentence

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9-11 cost New York about $100bn

Where did this figure come from? And, using the same accounting method, what is the true cost of the Iraq war? The cost of 9/11 (large by any normal standard) is a drop in the bucket compared with the cost of the Iraq war.

So is 2 trillion worth it to keep the war out of the US? I'd rather we fight the global war with al Queda in Baghdad as this point, rather than in New York or Detroit. I would predict that if we just pull out of Iraq, first many thousand Iraqi's will die, then battle will move to London and to the East Coast.

In retrospect, it is probably just as well that President Bush did not propose before the invasion the cunning plan of temporarily distracting terrorists from attacking the US (if not the UK) by the creation of a new center of terrorism, recruitment, and training in Iraq; if he had, the war might not have had much support.