Hey, pal: can you spare a couple a Trillion dollars? maybe six?

I am a pacifist. War is almost always a waste. The two Bush Wars will cost the US treasury many times more than the trivial pursuit that Congress is talking about now. So when you think you can conjure up an image of  "war is evil" as 100s of thousands of civilians died in Iraq and Afghanistan, you've come up a several hundred million short. The impact in the USA on millions upon millions of students whose education is shortchanged, the millions of potential recipients of medical aid who can't qualify the more stringent requirements because there simple isn't enough money for Medicaid; etc etc etc. Remember what Ike said so many years ago (April, 1953):

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Iraq War Cost U.S. More Than $2 Trillion, Could Grow to $6 Trillion, Says Watson Institute Study