[Cam]

I never thought just throwing money around would solve the problem. The Manhattan project was not successful because the government spent billions of dollars, It was successful because the government got a bunch of ingenious scientists, put them together with the newest technology and told them to go to work. It was the combining of great minds that made the Manhattan project successful.
And the fact that we have no idea what we would use for energy, well maybe that's true, so maybe we should concentrate our resources, and by resources I don't mean just money , on figuring out another source. Alternatively, maybe we should develop a way to clean up radiation quickly and inexpensively, therefore making nuclear energy a safer form of energy, or even trying to make nuclear fusion a feasible means of producing energy. We have many great minds out there, if they work together with a common goal it might be possible to do these things, then again maybe not, but it's a whole lot better option then sending our resources, by resources I once again don't mean money, but our soldiers, into battle against Saddam Hussein.
Look at the human genome project for example. Two groups were working toward a common goal and they both reached it at nearly the same time. Now what would have happened if these same two groups had worked together, they possibly could have done the same thing with less money and in a shorter amount of time?