Bush commutes Libby sentence

[kandrathe]

Well, then, How did he/she come up with the estimate? Is that the financial appropriation from the City of New York in response to 9/11? I only ask that you compare apples with apples.

True. It was merely the buildings, loss of business and tax revenue, insurance outlays, and cost of reconstruction. It also did not take into account the loss of future ventures and productivity of the thousands of lost New Yorkers. As for the stolen treasures of Iraq, it seems to me that the Iraqi's did that to themselves. What did Nazi Germany do to the treasures of France during their occupation? I'm not condoning the loss, but it seems to me that WWII was pretty hard on historical treasures in the war zones.

The truth is that the US would be infinitely better off today had all the money for the Iraq war simply been burned.

It's hard for me to predict, not knowing what would have happened with our heads firmly buried in the sand.