Another Why Bernie paper weight to help spark thought and conversation. In this model the little bar on the left represents the 50 billion dollars that Donald Rumsfeld estimated the Iraq war would cost. http://www.leadingtowar.com/war_rosecolored.php#as1 The bar on the right represents, using the same scale as the left bar, the 2 trillion that the Iraq war has already cost us, with the cost just expected to soar as we need to care for our soldiers damaged by the war. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314 BTW, Bernie opposed the war from the beginning.