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Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq

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93 points nabla9 | 1 comments | 25 May 25 07:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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melling ◴[25 May 25 16:20 UTC] No.44088874[source]▶
$2 trillion for that war. Next time let’s cure cancer(s).

Correct, no one said it would be easy. True we would likely not have succeeded, but millions more would be cancer survivors.

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SilasX ◴[25 May 25 17:11 UTC] No.44089182[source]▶
Alternatively, for $2 trillion, you could probably solve cold fusion and synthesis of liquid fuels, making the Middle East's oil wealth effectively irrelevant.
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1. arp242 ◴[25 May 25 22:10 UTC] No.44091673[source]▶
Cold fusion is basically impossible according to the laws of the universe as we understand them today. You'd have to do some sort of major discovery about the fundamental physics to do cold fusion. It's unclear (and IMHO, very unlikely) this will ever happen. It's very much not a money issue, it's a "we need to wait on some Einstein to make a major discovery of an unknown nature" issue, except that we don't know if that's even possible.