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> Imagine what we could have had in our communities if we hadn’t wasted $3,000,000,000,000 on Iraq. What we would've had was $3,000,000,000,000 less debt, and
by optimalquiet 2y ago
> Imagine what we could have had in our communities if we hadn’t wasted $3,000,000,000,000 on Iraq.
What we would've had was $3,000,000,000,000 less debt, and still no splash pad filtration.
The Iraq war was put on the credit card.
- bloomingeek 2y agoWe'll never know if we would have had splash pad filtration if the Iraq invasion didn't happen. What we do know is we were lied to by a presidential candidate and many of our solders were either killed or broken and many many Iraqis died because of that lie. Oh, and greed.
- mattmaroon 2y agoI think we can safely say that splash pad filtration and the Iraq War have no relation and we’d be in exactly the same fecal contaminant situation whether or not we invaded. And boy is HN getting weird.
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- bloomingeek 2y agoI was merely responding to the waste of money comments. Context is often lost on some, sadly.