COSTS OF WAR IN IRAQ

Just for kicks, the US broke the one day record this month for tax revenues....collected 61 billion dollars in one day.

BM

Wow. Now what?

Spend it and give it away like a drunken sailor.

Seconded

blatham

I'd argue that the biggest cost (to the US) of the war in Iraq is loss of credibility in the international community & the loss of hope as a result. There was so much good will & sympathy for the US after 9/11 & it was blown so quickly by the Iraq invasion. How do you cost the loss faith in the US as a moral force in the world? The costs you've mentioned are a terrible waste, but the loss of the US in the struggle for fairness & decency in the world is devastating.

ms

yuppers

I do believe that America had the power to do something really great after 9/11. But after the fear mongering war machine of America took over (voted on with one decenter in the Senate) we blew it all to **** on bombs and sent ourselves back to the stone ages of thought. We kill bad before they kill good.

Sad.

TF

JFK once said "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty".

That is very funny!

"When asked on US television if she [Madeline Albright, US Secretary of State] thought that the death of half a million Iraqi children [from sanctions in Iraq] was a price worth paying, Albright replied: "This is a very hard choice, but we think the price is worth it."

The cost of lives and money were huge during the Iraq sanction years too. I think we spent 10-12 billion per year militarily lost up to another 19 billion in exports per year.

"Threats to our liberty". Such a convenient conception. Republicans use the notion. Democrats use the notion. And most of all, weapons manufacturers and their friends use it. It's the war-mongers bestest trick.

Osama could, as we know, cream two important buildings and kill the three thousand or so innocent folks inside. But as a threat to 'American liberty', he'd rank somewhere around the Hell's Angels or a group of crazed red-blooded Oklahoma militia types. Sadaam had the capacity to lob rotten fruit but you poor schlepps were lied to about the big scary mushroom cloud and you bought it because you've been fed the same bullshit for so long it is foaming out of your own brains. How often do you hear the Swiss pissing their pants about threats to their 'liberty'?

You'd think perhaps you guys might get a clue when you find out that the swine who set this war in motion have avoided coming within a million miles of being soldiers themselves (Bolton: "The thought of dying in a rice paddy didn't appeal to me." etc etc). Run through the execs at Halliburton and Northrup and Boeing and the AEI and take a peek at how many of these ratfukkers are deigning to send their children over to Iraq.

All just a ton of happy Fourth of July fun, outside of the hundred thousand or so Iraqis and Afghanis blown to ****, the growing disgust in the rest of the world at what America is turning into, the maimed (outside and in) American kids who 'survive', the imbecilic drive towards exactly what you really don't want, and all the real life-affirming and life-saving things that COULD have been done with this money and these people.

Lincoln warned you that you ought not to fear the dismantling of your democracy through external threat, but rather that you would bring it down on yourselves. You're doing just a wonderful job at pushing the thesis.

Citizens out on the street protesting government policies...writers in the press pointing out inconsistencies and deceits...courts and congress that do not just rubber stamp the latest debauched grab for power...such citizen engagement in the nation is what you consider a threat to democracy when it is evidence of democracy. Fox turns into Pravda and you think it is just swell.

There oughta be a law. Specifically, that law ought to demand that every set of chess pieces have pawns with big doofus grins on their faces.

Condider the cost of doing nothing:

Another million or so Iraqis fed into the people shredding machines......sometimes head first.....sometimes feet first.

Not knowing how many Al Queda training camps were spitting out thousands of new blood thirsty killers and giving them cash and phony papers to use on Americans as they pour across the Mexican border.

Not knowing the extent of Saddams efforts to create a nuclear arsenal.......I know I sleep a lot better knowing that madman is behind bars

Not knowing what deals Saddam and the guy in Syria have hatched together for outfitting more suicide bombers to send into Israel.

Not knowing what deals Saddam has hatched with Iran to subvert the ME into one big cesspool of violence.

Money is only good if you can spend it on something useful........haven't you heard? The war is over and we won.

... and that is even funnier!

TRUE

Repercussions of America's 'war on terror'

Blatham tells us that Iraq is costing us 6 Billion a month. He does not tell us where the 6 Billion is going. Is it being put into the Euprhrates? Or scattered in the dust at Babylon?

It couldn't be that some of that money was actually going to American firms who are building military equipment and supplying our troops.

Six Billion a month says Blatham. He gives no link. I don't know where he got the figure.

Six Billion a month equals 72 Billion a year

That is slightly less than three quarters of one percent of our Gross Domestic Product. I say we can afford it.

Blatham thinks the money can be put to better use. I would suggesst that he and others who agree with him get to work to try to take the House and/or Senate from the Republicans so that the money can be directed to more appropriate uses.

I do not think that Blatham can be optomistic that this will happen so I am very much afraid that all he will be able to do is to continue to whine.

edited to conform to chic reality.

Did this thread get retitled.... "Make up something funny about Iraq" after the first post?

Parados- Is your avatar a picture of a whining child?

How apt!!!