Cost of the War in Iraq

Quote from jbtrader23:

Look at what W has done in office so far in 3 years:

A very muddled economy. A few million jobs lost. A trillion dollars in annual fiscal and trade deficits. An ill conceived war in Iraq that is costing American lives seemingly everyday. How in the world does this guy expect to get re-elected with this kind of record? Has he done anything remotely positive for this country besides his solid leadership after 9/11 for a few months? American schools are a joke. Look at how many kids are proficient in math or reading in the District of Columbia. It's abysmal, its in the single digits. Not to mention nationwide things are bad.

Has W done anything positive regarding healthcare?

All he seems to be able to do is to send soldiers in harms way to help Halliburton and his oil buddy cronies.

We need massive investments in alternative energy. Tens of billions of dollars a year IMO at least. Stand up to the Detroit lobby, stand up to the oil companies and end our dependence on middle east oil. Do we really need to lose US troops everyday so we can drive around in Hummers and Escalades? Of course not. We were driving gas guzzlers 30 years ago and we are still driving gas guzzlers.

Speaking of the cost of war in Iraq: we are spending, what, $87 billion over there? What if we spent $87 billion over here to:

Improve heathcare

Secure our open borders

Clean up the environment

Invest in alternative energy!

Modernize our schools

The list goes on.
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Who has profited the most financially because of the war....and are we really surprised?
 
Who do you think left W this nasty mess.

That mess of a man Clinton.
He was too busy getting hummers for the past 8 years.

And now Hillary might run?
Watch out world, we are going to hell in a hand basket.

:mad:
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Amid the usual negative drone of the US media, one sound has been noticeable by its absence lately. That is the sound that emanated from the mosques in the early days of the occupation calling for revolt, death to the Americans and an Islamist state. Those radical clerics have toned it down considerably lately. I suspect they were called in and given their marching orders,"Play ball, maybe even go on our payroll and we'll leave you alone. Keep this radical stuff up and we will shut you down."

One of the signal failures of the occupation has been the inability to get our own media on the air. We should have had an Armed forces TV station broadcasting from the beginning of the war, and put it on bigtime afterwards, with a couple of Arabic channels as well. In addition, we should have jammed or destroyed the Iranian TV that beams propaganda into Iraq daily. Why this has not been a priority is beyond me.
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Is this your prose, or are you quoting someone? How do you know that there is less talk of this kind within the mosques?

Maybe a lot of Iraqis like Iranian TV, like the the Iraqi Shiites.

The Allied forces have media in Iraq. Are you suggesting we should have taken over a significant portion of their wave spectrum?

One great success of the military victory has been the freedom of the press and the proliferation of new indigenous Iraqi newspapers, newsletters, magazines. THis will help the US in the long run, I beleive.
 
Quote from bobcathy1:

Who do you think left W this nasty mess.

That mess of a man Clinton.
He was too busy getting hummers for the past 8 years.

And now Hillary might run?
Watch out world, we are going to hell in a hand basket.

:mad:
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Let's say that at one hummer a day, and we will be generous in the amount of time for the hummer, say, 30 minutes, that still gave Clinton plenty of time to be President.

What's the use of being the most powerful man in the world if you can't get a hummer on demand?
 
Iraq solution


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Quote from Nolan-Vinny-Sam:

Step one- dumya steps down Him and his cronies started this bullshit, do you really trust them to finish it??????? :confused:

Step two- give 100$ to each Iraqi, let them vote, elect their OWN fucking rulers. 65% vote for clerics? so be it, it's fucking democracy.

Step 3- get the hell out of there.

Step 4- crucify the liars back home. Hold new elections.

bullshit war, a complete fraud, waste of taxpayers money andsoldiers blood

Step 5- take the $$ from HAL,Betchel and give it back to the taxpayers,

Step 6- find out who really did the 9-11 stone them in public (hint hint.. most are here in the US foes dressed as friends)

Step 7- send Mavman,Gordo, Romeo aka sardo,abraMondo.... to Saudi Arabia. Bomb the crap out of them.

:D :D :D
 
Doesn't anyone wonder if we would have been better off spending all these billions on alternative energy sources domestic infrastructure healthcare education, instead of this mess called Iraq war?
Not to mention the still mounting loss of lives

Of course with out the war, profits for the military industrial complex not to mention oil companies would not be there, but that's a different story.

According to some other studies, the total cost may exceed the 2 trillion???

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63417&highlight=cost
vhehn
Registered: Nov 1999
Posts: 4652
02-04-06 12:16 AM

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/dailyUpdate.html

Report: Iraq war costs could top $2 trillion

New study takes into account long-term costs of healthcare for wounded soldiers.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
 
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