Assuming high oil prices are caused by the war doesn't stand up well, to say the least. What were oil prices like back when Iraq oil was totally embargoed?

For perspective, we spend a trillion dollars on entitlements for the elderly every single year, and that cost is never, ever going to go down. The war in Iraq will end.

Do I get to add the interest rates for borrowing THAT money to the cost?

Or playing this game even further, how about calculating lost economic production from taxes pumped out of the private sector?

My first analogy went over your head. I suppose that one will, too.