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What Bin Laden has cost us


Posted: May 7, 2011

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years/238517/

 

Interesting article...kinda long...but worth the read.

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Wow...that was interesting. - Thanks for sharing.

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I don't think any of us would deny that Bin Laden lead to a lot of US spending and that certainly didn't help us out financially. I guess you could say if we keep spending ourselves into bankruptcy with these wars and other things....Bin Laden ultimately wins in the end no matter whether he died in 2001 or was recently taken out earlier this week. They want the downfall of Western civilization and if our country's economy collapses and we are bankrupt...they win.

I'll bet he celebrated when we changed our focus to Iraq instead of him - because that cost us $$$$$

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The more money they cost us, the bigger what they considered to be their victory against us. Each time we went off in another direction instead of straight to him, it cost us time, money, and precious lives. That was a very bad time in our history. I'm just happy that in the end, he didn't win.

Well, he died knowing that he left America in the - condition he wanted.nm

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