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> I would have preferred for all the war billions to have been spent on
> developing energy solutions that can work, on education, on health care, on
> maintenance of mass transit and roads, on anything other than war.

Again, Lisa, there's that myth that if we didn't spend the money on the war 
it would have been available to spend on alternate energy.

Take a good look at corn ethanol for an example of what I  mean.  Do you buy 
bulk corn for your livestock?  If so you will see that in the space of a year 
and a half, the price of corn has tripled specifically because there was 
money 
(ostensibly that COULD have been spent on the war but wasn't) spent on it, 
subsidizing it.  Spending more money does not make more of something, it only 
makes what you have available more expensive.

The single exception is war.  You can manufacture more war anytime you want.  
This creates the illusion that if you weren't spending the money on the war, 
you could spend it on something else.   </HTML>