What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Medical research, tackling the problems of poverty and education, reconstruction of New Orleans all would be one way to spend $1.2 trillion. Here would be another: The war in Iraq.



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?ex=157680000&en=f37fad9e7de0c9c8&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

A fantastic article from today's Times, putting the whole Iraq debacle in financial perspective.