Iraq War Cost US 2 Trillion dollars, 200,000 lives. What a waste.

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A new report by the “Costs of War” project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies finds that nearly 200,000 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in the war in Iraq President George W. Bush launched 10 years ago.

The Iraq War was in vain. No WMD were found, and there's no real democracy in Iraq. The facts are clear: The world would have been better off if Saddam were still in power and Gore had taken the office of President, which he rightly won in 2000.

The GOP's refusal to admit to their mistake of starting the Iraq War is one of the reason why they have little power in DC. The US voter is punishing the GOP for their foreign policy mistakes, and they deserve every bit of it and more.
 
A new report by the “Costs of War” project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies finds that nearly 200,000 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in the war in Iraq President George W. Bush launched 10 years ago.

The Iraq War was in vain. No WMD were found, and there's no real democracy in Iraq. The facts are clear: The world would have been better off if Saddam were still in power and Gore had taken the office of President, which he rightly won in 2000.

The GOP's refusal to admit to their mistake of starting the Iraq War is one of the reason why they have little power in DC. The US voter is punishing the GOP for their foreign policy mistakes, and they deserve every bit of it and more.

And all these armchair war hawks don't want any taxes raised to pay for the war THEY supported. Figure THAT one out!
 
A new report by the “Costs of War” project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies finds that nearly 200,000 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in the war in Iraq President George W. Bush launched 10 years ago.

The Iraq War was in vain. No WMD were found, and there's no real democracy in Iraq. The facts are clear: The world would have been better off if Saddam were still in power and Gore had taken the office of President, which he rightly won in 2000.

The GOP's refusal to admit to their mistake of starting the Iraq War is one of the reason why they have little power in DC. The US voter is punishing the GOP for their foreign policy mistakes, and they deserve every bit of it and more.

And all these armchair war hawks don't want any taxes raised to pay for the war THEY supported. Figure THAT one out!

HOW many f...king times do you idiots have to be told!!!
A) Saddam did JUST as that idiot Kim Jong Un in Korea has done broke the "1991 Cease Fire". He made an AGREEMENT that all these Democrats AGREED Saddam BROKE dozens of times!
32 democrat quotes indicate even before GWB that Saddam was a threat!

"..deny Iraq the capacity to develop WMD".Bill Clinton,1998
"..most brutal dictators of Century", Biden,1998
"Iraq compliance with Resolution 687 becomes shell game"..Daschle 1998
"He will use those WMDs again,as he has ten times since 1983" ..Berger Clinton Ntl. Secur. Advr 1998
"posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WMD programs" Levin 1998
"Saddam has been engaged in development of WMDs which is a threat.."Pelosi 1998 WHERE'D SHE GET THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUSH?
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building WMDS.."Albright 1999
"Saddam to refine delivery systems, that will threaten the US..."Graham 2001
"Saddam has ignored the mandate of the UN and is building WMDs and the means to deliver.." Levin 2002
"Iraq's search for WMDs ...will continue as long as Saddam's in power"..Gore 2002
"Saddam retains stockpiles of WMDS.."Byrd 2002
"..give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Kerry 2002
"..Unmistakable evidence Saddam developing nuclear weapons next 5 years.."Rockefeller 2002
"Violated over 11 years every UN resolution demanding disarming WMDs.."Waxman 2002
"He's given aid,comfort & sanctuary to al Qaeda members..and keep developing WMDs"..Hillary 2002
"Compelling evidence Saddam has WMDs production storage capacity.." Graham 2002
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003.


CLINTON DID THIS!! NO telling how many Iraqis were killed by Clinton doing as Obama said "air raiding villages and killing civilians"!
"Between 1999 and 2001, the U.S. and British-led air forces in Iraq dropped 1.3 million pounds of bombs in response to purported violations of the no-fly zones and anti-aircraft fire from Saddam Hussein.

A sweeping attack, conducted in January of 1999, rained down 25 missiles on Iraqi soil, killing civilians. Clinton said the attack was in response to four planes violating the no-fly zones.

Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair authorized air strikes on more than 100 days in 1999, sometimes several times per day. The bombings were ostensibly in response to Husseins refusal to allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, though critics alleged the move was aimed at deflecting attention from impeachment.
The Raw Story | Clinton bombing of Iraq far exceeded Bush's in run-up to war; Bush 'spikes of activity' questioned

AND..
"When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime," he said in an interview with Portuguese cable news channel SIC Noticias.
Clinton believes Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: Portugal PM

SO come on dumb f..ks... at least be honest you and your demo suck buddies WANTED SADDAM removed... YOU said so!
"give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Senator John Kerry 2002"
 
The Iraq war, the afghanistan war, the viet nam war, the kosovo war--------all wasted american lives and american money.

to try to make these blunders into some kind of partisan attack is to ignore history. Both parties are equally to blame.
 
OH... will Obama resume conflict with North Korea now that they've launched missiles or is the chicken shit going to talk his way out of it?
Let's see how much has that cost? How many Korean civilians have been killed?
According to some estimates: 33,741 Americans,
it is estimated that about 10 million people died during the Korean war. That's about the same amount of people killed during WW1

Seven million soldiers died
Three million civilians died

There are so many conflicting reports on the total of deaths in the Korean war. I just watched a documentary on the history channel that stated that

2.5 million North Korean soldiers and civilians
1.5 million South Korean soldiers and civilians
1 million Chinese soldiers and civilians
55 thousand American soldiers
500 Canadian soldiers
300 Australian soldiers
and a further 5000 UN soldiers from a number of different countries all lost their lives in the Korean war
WHERE is your outrage over the 10 million Korean war deaths!!!
How many people died in the Korean War all together

OH and by the way... the Iraq war was over May 1st 2003.. BUT because of traitors like you that loved to seeing the encouragement of the terrorists when democrat leaders said:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "

U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D) "Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”

Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."

Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"

There has been studies that show that these words HELPED prolong the conflict costing 3,000 more soldiers lives and $600 billion more!
All because idiots like you and the above WANTED YOUR political power no matter the cost in lives and money!
YOU and your disgusting ILK applauded the terrorists! Encouraged the Terrorists to kill more troops because that would make the evening news about Iraq !
 
HOW many f...king times do you idiots have to be told!!!
A) Saddam did JUST as that idiot Kim Jong Un in Korea has done broke the "1991 Cease Fire". He made an AGREEMENT that all these Democrats AGREED Saddam BROKE dozens of times!
32 democrat quotes indicate even before GWB that Saddam was a threat!

"..deny Iraq the capacity to develop WMD".Bill Clinton,1998
"..most brutal dictators of Century", Biden,1998
"Iraq compliance with Resolution 687 becomes shell game"..Daschle 1998
"He will use those WMDs again,as he has ten times since 1983" ..Berger Clinton Ntl. Secur. Advr 1998
"posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WMD programs" Levin 1998
"Saddam has been engaged in development of WMDs which is a threat.."Pelosi 1998 WHERE'D SHE GET THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUSH?
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building WMDS.."Albright 1999
"Saddam to refine delivery systems, that will threaten the US..."Graham 2001
"Saddam has ignored the mandate of the UN and is building WMDs and the means to deliver.." Levin 2002
"Iraq's search for WMDs ...will continue as long as Saddam's in power"..Gore 2002
"Saddam retains stockpiles of WMDS.."Byrd 2002
"..give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Kerry 2002
"..Unmistakable evidence Saddam developing nuclear weapons next 5 years.."Rockefeller 2002
"Violated over 11 years every UN resolution demanding disarming WMDs.."Waxman 2002
"He's given aid,comfort & sanctuary to al Qaeda members..and keep developing WMDs"..Hillary 2002
"Compelling evidence Saddam has WMDs production storage capacity.." Graham 2002
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003.


CLINTON DID THIS!! NO telling how many Iraqis were killed by Clinton doing as Obama said "air raiding villages and killing civilians"!
"Between 1999 and 2001, the U.S. and British-led air forces in Iraq dropped 1.3 million pounds of bombs in response to purported violations of the no-fly zones and anti-aircraft fire from Saddam Hussein.

A sweeping attack, conducted in January of 1999, rained down 25 missiles on Iraqi soil, killing civilians. Clinton said the attack was in response to four planes violating the no-fly zones.

Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair authorized air strikes on more than 100 days in 1999, sometimes several times per day. The bombings were ostensibly in response to Husseins refusal to allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, though critics alleged the move was aimed at deflecting attention from impeachment.
The Raw Story | Clinton bombing of Iraq far exceeded Bush's in run-up to war; Bush 'spikes of activity' questioned

AND..
"When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime," he said in an interview with Portuguese cable news channel SIC Noticias.
Clinton believes Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: Portugal PM

SO come on dumb f..ks... at least be honest you and your demo suck buddies WANTED SADDAM removed... YOU said so!
"give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Senator John Kerry 2002"
It wasn't our call to decide if Hussein broke the ceasefire.

This was Bush's war!
 
The Iraq war, the afghanistan war, the viet nam war, the kosovo war--------all wasted american lives and american money.

to try to make these blunders into some kind of partisan attack is to ignore history. Both parties are equally to blame.

Explain to me the following:
You buy a car. You agree to make the payments. YOU sign documents stating YOU know what will happen if the payments aren't made!

YOU then after several months stop making payments.

The lender gives you repeated warnings. Call you constantly over several months after you've stopped.

The repossess the car.
Were they wrong? Were they at fault for YOU not keeping your end of the agreement??

I know this is a real stretch for your limited mushy brain cells,, BUT GUESS WHAT???
EVERY one of your illustrations were agreed to by each party!

IRAQ WAR.. "1991 CEASE FIRE" after Saddam invaded Kuiwait got kicked out and signed the 1991 Cease Fire agreement!
Did he keep it? NO! The keys to the dictatorship were taken away and Saddam hung!
Afghanistan.. Obviously you don't remember 9/11?? you know attack planned in Afghanistan by Bin Laden???

The Authorization for Use of Military Force[1] (AUMF) is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on September 14, 2001, authorizing the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. The authorization granted the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups. The AUMF was signed by President George W. Bush on September 18, 2001.
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Of course not because you have NO problem in reneging on agreements you lush!

Vietnam war Again remember the concept of KEEPING AGREEMENTS??
This doesn't mean anything to mealy brained people like you but South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an agreement
that the USA signed and agreed to help...
BUT being the worthless sh..t who's word and signature MEAN nothing you don't care !
 
OH... will Obama resume conflict with North Korea now that they've launched missiles or is the chicken shit going to talk his way out of it?
Let's see how much has that cost? How many Korean civilians have been killed?
According to some estimates: 33,741 Americans,
it is estimated that about 10 million people died during the Korean war. That's about the same amount of people killed during WW1

Seven million soldiers died
Three million civilians died

There are so many conflicting reports on the total of deaths in the Korean war. I just watched a documentary on the history channel that stated that

2.5 million North Korean soldiers and civilians
1.5 million South Korean soldiers and civilians
1 million Chinese soldiers and civilians
55 thousand American soldiers
500 Canadian soldiers
300 Australian soldiers
and a further 5000 UN soldiers from a number of different countries all lost their lives in the Korean war
WHERE is your outrage over the 10 million Korean war deaths!!!
How many people died in the Korean War all together

OH and by the way... the Iraq war was over May 1st 2003.. BUT because of traitors like you that loved to seeing the encouragement of the terrorists when democrat leaders said:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "

U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D) "Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”

Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."

Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"

There has been studies that show that these words HELPED prolong the conflict costing 3,000 more soldiers lives and $600 billion more!
All because idiots like you and the above WANTED YOUR political power no matter the cost in lives and money!
YOU and your disgusting ILK applauded the terrorists! Encouraged the Terrorists to kill more troops because that would make the evening news about Iraq !

The right wing is already picking out our next war

How quaint
 
Yep.

A war crime and a national disgrace.

Link to anything other than a winger anti-war site that shows anything remotely close to a war crime charge??

And it is you and those like you that are a national disgrace

Unlike you, I don't lust after the blood of innocent men, women and kids in faraway lands.

So..yeah..it was a crime.

To you..it was a video game.

Cheers.
 
OH... will Obama resume conflict with North Korea now that they've launched missiles or is the chicken shit going to talk his way out of it?
Let's see how much has that cost? How many Korean civilians have been killed?
According to some estimates: 33,741 Americans,
it is estimated that about 10 million people died during the Korean war. That's about the same amount of people killed during WW1

Seven million soldiers died
Three million civilians died

There are so many conflicting reports on the total of deaths in the Korean war. I just watched a documentary on the history channel that stated that

2.5 million North Korean soldiers and civilians
1.5 million South Korean soldiers and civilians
1 million Chinese soldiers and civilians
55 thousand American soldiers
500 Canadian soldiers
300 Australian soldiers
and a further 5000 UN soldiers from a number of different countries all lost their lives in the Korean war
WHERE is your outrage over the 10 million Korean war deaths!!!
How many people died in the Korean War all together

OH and by the way... the Iraq war was over May 1st 2003.. BUT because of traitors like you that loved to seeing the encouragement of the terrorists when democrat leaders said:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "

U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D) "Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”

Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."

Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"

There has been studies that show that these words HELPED prolong the conflict costing 3,000 more soldiers lives and $600 billion more!
All because idiots like you and the above WANTED YOUR political power no matter the cost in lives and money!
YOU and your disgusting ILK applauded the terrorists! Encouraged the Terrorists to kill more troops because that would make the evening news about Iraq !

Yep.

A war crime and a national disgrace.

Link to anything other than a winger anti-war site that shows anything remotely close to a war crime charge??

And it is you and those like you that are a national disgrace

Unlike you, I don't lust after the blood of innocent men, women and kids in faraway lands.

So..yeah..it was a crime.

To you..it was a video game.

Cheers.

Uh huh... yeah :rolleyes:

Show any order targeting civilians.. show anything that even remotely supports your bullshit claim

Until then.. shut the fuck up
 
[/QUOTE]This was Bush's war![/QUOTE]

May have been a war "under" Bush's presidency, but he had the backing of most of your hero's (Kerry, Pelosi, Clinton, etc.....) So why can't you admit it? Bush didn't go into Iraq without Congress approving it either. What did Obama do in Libya? Oh ya....just ignored Congress!
 
OH... will Obama resume conflict with North Korea now that they've launched missiles or is the chicken shit going to talk his way out of it?
Let's see how much has that cost? How many Korean civilians have been killed?
According to some estimates: 33,741 Americans,
it is estimated that about 10 million people died during the Korean war. That's about the same amount of people killed during WW1

Seven million soldiers died
Three million civilians died

There are so many conflicting reports on the total of deaths in the Korean war. I just watched a documentary on the history channel that stated that

2.5 million North Korean soldiers and civilians
1.5 million South Korean soldiers and civilians
1 million Chinese soldiers and civilians
55 thousand American soldiers
500 Canadian soldiers
300 Australian soldiers
and a further 5000 UN soldiers from a number of different countries all lost their lives in the Korean war
WHERE is your outrage over the 10 million Korean war deaths!!!
How many people died in the Korean War all together

OH and by the way... the Iraq war was over May 1st 2003.. BUT because of traitors like you that loved to seeing the encouragement of the terrorists when democrat leaders said:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "

U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D) "Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”

Senator Kerry (D) "American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."

Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
Senator Obama said "troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"

There has been studies that show that these words HELPED prolong the conflict costing 3,000 more soldiers lives and $600 billion more!
All because idiots like you and the above WANTED YOUR political power no matter the cost in lives and money!
YOU and your disgusting ILK applauded the terrorists! Encouraged the Terrorists to kill more troops because that would make the evening news about Iraq !

Link to anything other than a winger anti-war site that shows anything remotely close to a war crime charge??

And it is you and those like you that are a national disgrace

Unlike you, I don't lust after the blood of innocent men, women and kids in faraway lands.

So..yeah..it was a crime.

To you..it was a video game.

Cheers.

Uh huh... yeah :rolleyes:

Show any order targeting civilians.. show anything that even remotely supports your bullshit claim

Until then.. shut the fuck up

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aEvzuA4f0c]WAR Aviation - Shock & Awe Bombing Of Baghdad - Operation Ir - YouTube[/ame]

Baghdad wasn't a military installation.

It was a major city populated by civilians.
 
A new report by the “Costs of War” project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies finds that nearly 200,000 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in the war in Iraq President George W. Bush launched 10 years ago.

The Iraq War was in vain. No WMD were found, and there's no real democracy in Iraq. The facts are clear: The world would have been better off if Saddam were still in power and Gore had taken the office of President, which he rightly won in 2000.

The GOP's refusal to admit to their mistake of starting the Iraq War is one of the reason why they have little power in DC. The US voter is punishing the GOP for their foreign policy mistakes, and they deserve every bit of it and more.


wow, so if that is true, then in both Afghanistan and Iraq the costs were $808 billion dollars as of Sept 2008 from the beginnning in 2001. So, are you saying under Obama the costs skyrocketed, since that $808 billion also included Afghanistan, and yet now the costs are $2 trillion in Iraq alone?
U.S. GAO - Global War on Terrorism: Reported Obligations for the Department of Defense
 
The Iraq war, the afghanistan war, the viet nam war, the kosovo war--------all wasted american lives and american money.

to try to make these blunders into some kind of partisan attack is to ignore history. Both parties are equally to blame.

Explain to me the following:
You buy a car. You agree to make the payments. YOU sign documents stating YOU know what will happen if the payments aren't made!

YOU then after several months stop making payments.

The lender gives you repeated warnings. Call you constantly over several months after you've stopped.

The repossess the car.
Were they wrong? Were they at fault for YOU not keeping your end of the agreement??

I know this is a real stretch for your limited mushy brain cells,, BUT GUESS WHAT???
EVERY one of your illustrations were agreed to by each party!

IRAQ WAR.. "1991 CEASE FIRE" after Saddam invaded Kuiwait got kicked out and signed the 1991 Cease Fire agreement!
Did he keep it? NO! The keys to the dictatorship were taken away and Saddam hung!
Afghanistan.. Obviously you don't remember 9/11?? you know attack planned in Afghanistan by Bin Laden???

The Authorization for Use of Military Force[1] (AUMF) is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on September 14, 2001, authorizing the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. The authorization granted the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11th attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups. The AUMF was signed by President George W. Bush on September 18, 2001.
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Of course not because you have NO problem in reneging on agreements you lush!

Vietnam war Again remember the concept of KEEPING AGREEMENTS??
This doesn't mean anything to mealy brained people like you but South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an agreement
that the USA signed and agreed to help...
BUT being the worthless sh..t who's word and signature MEAN nothing you don't care !

My point is that not one of our recent "wars" accomplished anything. What did 58,000 americans die for in viet nam? What did americans die for in Iraq and Afghanistan? What did our kids lose arms and legs for in those stupid wars?

Why do we enter wars and then not allow the military to win them? If, we are determined to wage war on someone, lets go all out and obliterate the enemy and end it quickly. If we are not in it to win it, then we need to keep our military at home.

Thats the point I am trying to make------------Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon accomplished absolutely nothing in viet nam-------nothing, nada, zero----same with Bush and obama in Iraq and afghan, when we leave those countries will degrade back to what they were before we spent billions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to bring them to our idea of what they should be--------it never works and we seem incapable of learning from history.
 
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If the narcissistic, zealous neocons were so proud of the wars, they'd be spending far less time pointing the finger at the Dems and far more time pointing with pride at the Commander in Chief who stuck us there.

But they know.

So they burn terabytes of bandwidth on this board trying to convince themselves that this was all a good idea. Over and over and over.

Tough shit. You wanted it, you support it, you own it. It's all yours.

Here, explain it to HER:


war-dead-soldier-casket-wife-baby.jpg


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Yep.

A war crime and a national disgrace.

Link to anything other than a winger anti-war site that shows anything remotely close to a war crime charge??

And it is you and those like you that are a national disgrace

Unlike you, I don't lust after the blood of innocent men, women and kids in faraway lands.

So..yeah..it was a crime.

To you..it was a video game.

Cheers.

Iraq was a stupid mistake, but it was not a criminal act. congress authorized it, democrats supported it, the UN supported it, as did the UK, the EU, Japan, Spain, Russia, and every other major nation in the world.

You Bush haters need to get your history correct.
 

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