Let me get this straight . . .

COST OF IRAQ WAR : 

• $3 TRILLION (all in) ***

RETURN ON INVESTMENT: 

• resurgent Al Qaeda 
  
• undermined multilateral nuclear anti-proliferation efforts  
• massive loss of American foreign policy and intelligence agencies credibility
• depletion of armed forces capabilities 
  
• distraction from Afghanistan 
  
• maybe someday "democracy will flower in the middle east" (like it did in Palestine, except they elected Hamas to power - oops)

REPUBLICANS OPPOSED: 

• Zero
  

-- compare and contrast with -- 

COST OF PROPOSED STIMULUS PACKAGE (Senate Version): 

• $780 billion

RETURN ON INVESTMENT: 

• Only hope for avoiding crippling global depression (tax cuts for the rich repeatedly proven ineffective as stimulus)

REPUBLICANS OPPOSED:

• All but three Senators.
  

*** see, Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, former chief economist at the World Bank, winner, Nobel Prize for Economics, 2001: monetary estimates may be considered in addition to 100,000 to 655,000 dead, not that many seem to care very much