May 24th-The Cost of the War In Iraq-$171,953,286,278

The War in Iraq Costs

$171,953,286,278

See the cost in your community:


Compare to the cost of:

PRE-SCHOOL

KIDS' HEALTH

PUBLIC EDUCATION

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

PUBLIC HOUSING

WORLD HUNGER

AIDS EPIDEMIC

WORLD IMMUNIZATION

http://www.costofwar.com/

"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

-Mario Savio

:sarcasm:

But let's take your figure. Eight months.

House panel backs $45 bln for Iraq

Tue May 24, 6:21 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday approved another $45 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which would bring the costs of the U.S. military operations there to more than $300 billion.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050524/pl_nm/iraq_usa_congress_dc

That's a lot of money to spend fulfilling a prophecy.

US govt: International Terrorism is the greatest threat America faces.

Dumb-ass gullible masses and elected reps: How so?

US govt: Look at all the soldiers being killed by terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Dumb-ass gullible masses and their reps: So the money was worth it.

America is being taught quite a harsh lesson with this whole BushCo Neocon nightmare. You woulda thought peeps woulda learned after Nixon, Reagan, etc. :shrug:

Only 17 countries have a GNP over 300 billion.

http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/PNB2.html

That's a lot of money for the only purpose of:
(a) killing people
(b) destroying places
(c) making enemies