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If anything, the numbers in the article undersell the scale of waste.

Our Middle East clusterfuck has cost us at least 8 trillion dollars since 2003.

Enough to convert the entire US to clean energy, feed every hungry person on the planet, and house every homeless American. With change.

Instead it was spent on murdering millions, displacing tens of millions, and riddling generations of children with cancer and birth defects (again).

It's so, so far beyond evil and stupid that even Noam Chomsky says there's no word for it.




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