"The biggest construction project in U.S. history, Boston's "Big Dig," cost about $15 billion. In fact, the entire cost of building the interstate highway system, expressed in today's dollars, was $540 billion -- less than a third of what was wasted in Iraq."
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Loren Thompson , “Iraq Opportunity Costs: What America Could Have Had If It Never Invaded”, Forbes, (Jun 27, 2014).
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