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Stuff like this pops off the page

I just decided to start adding them War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says By Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 22, 2007; A11 "Either you think the war in Iraq supports America's national security, or not," said Frederick W. Kagan, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "If you think national security won't be harmed by withdrawing from Iraq, of course you would want to see that money spent elsewhere. I myself think that belief, on a certain level, is absurd, so the question of focusing on how much money we are spending there is irrelevant." Okay Fred "Tom Kat" Kagen So why doesn't this logic apply to businesses that are making money hand over fist. Is big returns a boom or in the long term a bust for the US? Us? Or is it all about the investors? If one has a billion in today's chedda, what will the Swiss Cheese be worth tomorrow? Will it taste as good? Will it have been stored at the ri