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> It's difficult to comprehend how our politicians could have any issues supporting such an initiative.

This just seems like a variant of the sunk cost fallacy. The money blown on the Iraq war is gone. We can't get it back. So why would that have any bearing on the cost benefit analysis of another expense?



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