Blog written by: Jeremy Pikser, Mark Leyner & John Cusack

Originally posted at Brave New Films.

Back in early 2003 the three of us got together to see if we could figure out something to write that would express some of the outrage and feelings of going crazy we had about what was going on around Iraq.

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THAT WAS FUN.  Just got done spending $3 trillion.  Try it yourself – it's a lot harder
than you might think.  Honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier just to follow the President's example and blow it all on one illegal occupation of Iraq.

$3 trillion is the projected cost of the Iraq War according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes.  That's a whole lot of zeroes, but what does it really amount to?  How many homes would it buy for Americans who've fallen victim to the subprime meltdown?  How many debts would it pay off for developing nations?  As it turns out, one whole hell of a lot of all of those things combined.