Iraq cost per minute - Democratic Underground

SHRED

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Wed Oct-03-07 09:05 PM
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Iraq cost per minute

Anyone have a link to "per minute" figures?

Thanks

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rurallib

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Wed Oct-03-07 09:22 PM
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1. $2.5B/week divided by 10080 minutes /week

gives me @$248,015 per minute. no guarantee on that. boy that's a lot.

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anakie

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Wed Oct-03-07 10:37 PM
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3. divided by 60 again

to get $4133 per second. Lotta money

peace

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tekisui

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Wed Oct-03-07 10:13 PM
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2. I read $500,000 every minute several times. No link yet.

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Contrary1

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Wed Oct-03-07 10:43 PM
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4. Here's a link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102074_pf.html

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SHRED

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Thu Oct-04-07 06:27 AM
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5. Awesome...thanks

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