{"id":63,"date":"2004-06-22T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=63"},"modified":"2005-03-11T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T16:52:49","slug":"just-how-much-it-is-costing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/06\/just-how-much-it-is-costing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how much it is costing us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=252783&#038;category=IRAQEDITORIAL&#038;BCCode=IRQE&#038;newsdate=6\/12\/2004\">Albany, N.Y. &#8212; timesunion.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what is presented as &quot;irrefutable&quot; cost:<\/p>\n<p>$4 billion to $4.6 billion a month in Iraq<br \/>$700 million a month in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Not counting the graft and such, and the costs that are being hidden. <\/p>\n<p>Do you remember what actually caused the Berlin Wall to come down? We bankrupted the USSR. So, anyone have a job for two humanities PhD&#8217;s in&#8230;say&#8230; Toronto? Paris? I&#8217;m beginning to think many of us will be forming the new ex-pat intellectual network before too much longer.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;m wrong. I love this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember what actually caused the Berlin Wall to come down? We bankrupted the USSR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}