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Lazy, I guess.

2,000,000 US Soldiers fought in WWI
113,000 US soldiers died in WWI
versus
150,000 US soldiers in Iraq
2,000 US soldier deaths

Since 2,000,000 is bigger than 150,000 I thought the original assertion was silly. I shot from the hip without bothering to read the article. I suppose the high tech nature of modern war makes it much more expensive. The kook left likes to cherry pick numbers which supports their anti-war arguments. The could not choose the 2,000,000 vs 150,000 numbers or 113,000 versus 2,000 numbers because that undermines their cause. So they choose money. My instincts were still right. They were being sneaky in making their arguments.

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It wasn't sneaky, the post said that this war was more expensive than WWI. Which it was, despite your ridiculous inflation assumption (it would obviously be blown out of the water had inflation not been factored in). No one said "OMG LOOK THIS WAR WAS WORSE THAN WWI!" because that wasn't what the post was about. Perhaps the grander concept was that the war was not worth it, but you showing that more people died in WWI doesn't prove that it was, now, does it?