The Cost Of The War...In Dollars

Of course the war in Iraq has cost us many things as a society: the lives of thousands of brave American soldiers, the respect of the various other nations of the world, our national credibility and moral authority, etc. But nothing justifies the use of the word "cost" so much as the financial cost to our nation: the trillions (that's 12 zeros) of dollars that will have to be paid back by ourselves and the next several generations of Americans. The inimitable Tom Tommorow puts all this cash into perspective in his latest strip at Slate.com.

[Update: The link above will take you to Slate.com's main page first. You will have to pull down the list of recent pages on your browser window and skip back two pages past their redirect page to get to the comic strip. Sorry.]