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Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion, says Nobel prize-winning economist

Jamie Wilson in The Guardian
Saturday January 7, 2006

The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.

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I'd rather the Bush-Blair two-headed monster and their political/corporate kin had simply taken the trillions of dollars and not attacked Iraq. They'd actually be better off themselves, but more imortantly, 2 or 3 hundred thousand Iraqis and others would still be alive.

I crave your mouth...

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

~ Pablo Neruda

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Here's a view of some objects at home. Packaging is a particular interest of ours and,
well, with such items as these...

[Yes, the spider glows in the dark. But it wasn't responsible for removing and consuming
the head of the Belle of the Ball. The identity of the perpetrator is a mystery you
will have to solve.]