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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I agree that the sanctions were inflicting a toll on Iraqis. I submit that many more have died since then. I think you are exagerating the number of soldiers we kept in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and in any event this was far less expensive than having our soldiers tied down in Iraq under the current scenario.
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Depends, if one of the external costs of having soldiers in Saudi was WTC II, how do we measure the cost of that? Dollars? Lives? An integrated metric?