Rich
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And this is just happening.
So every day in Iran could fully fund the VA for a week.
Yeah, I was looking at the math.
The war in Iraq, the worst days of the war in Iraq was $300 million a day.
So from day one, we're spending triple the daily cost on Iran that we ever spent at the worst, most expensive part of the war in Iraq.
And that was a war on terror war in Iraq was like a $2.3 trillion total campaign.
And it's still costing us more because of all of the trauma for the veterans.
And you know what else?
Oh, yeah, the Dow.
I think that the share of the headlines versus what people actually compare about or care about are two different conversations because yes, the,
The war is consuming all of the headlines, but one of those headlines from the Washington Post last week, or no, I think it was New York Times, was about how in recorded American history, no president has ever started a conflict with less than 50% of support for that conflict.
All the way back, I mean, pre-World War I, as far back as you can think.
But even Vietnam, Korea, Gulf War, even the little ones in Syria, in Libya, those started with at least a slight majority of support for the presidents, including Obama and Clinton, who started those campaigns.
And then, of course, as time goes on and costs pile up and we start losing people and the mission gets lost...
we turn on almost every war that has started.
People love the action movie shit, I guess, up front.
And I mean other people, not me.
But we always sour on it.
And this one, we were sour on it from the beginning.