1.0 link 78800 <![CDATA[The Cost of Terror: $6,000 Per Second]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-plait/the-cost-of-terror-600_b_78800.html Whenever the Bush administration balks at spending money on some needed issue, I always mention on my blog that the Iraq war is costing us 11 million dollars per hour.

I am embarrassed to admit that this figure is wrong. I apologize. It has recently come to light that the Iraq war (plus Afghanistan, a trivial amount by comparison) is actually costing us 20 million dollars per hour.

This new amount was revealed by The Washington Post just...

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