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Originally Posted by garysher  Make that 12 BILLION (with a B) dollars every month being spent on the Iraq "war".
That could be paying for a lot of schools, teachers salaries, hospitals, roads, bridges, refineries etc, etc.
Not hard to see why most European nations opposed this war.
The defence budget for 2009 is $515 BILLION, excluding additional Iraq War spending bills.
Eventually the American people will have to decide if all this is really necessary to sustain "freedom".
| Thank you for the correction, Gary. That's also one of the figures I heard; but I thought it best not to overstate myself too much, as there is a lot of difference between "million" and "billion".
You've said it all. We are sacrificing the items you mentioned above(very important items) for Iraq. It seems that we are getting nothing for our money. In investment terms, that's called a very poor ROI (return on investment). The question is: for how much longer do we want to sink more money, time, and the lives and health of our troops into this investment? |