It kept critics and dissenters away from the main population by imprisoning them in remote labor camps. Usually they were executed if they showed to be too much of a threat
because It took many people to share the high costs.
Answer: Neta Crawford, chair of the political science department at Boston University, in her Costs of War project, estimated the long term cost of the Iraq War for the United States at $1.922 trillion.
A candidate from a split party typically doesn’t win the presidency and a contested convention doesn’t create momentum that a candidate needs to oppose the other party
