"War Or Car" Blog: For The Cost Of The Iraq War We Could Have Bought Every American A Prius...

For the cost of the Iraq War we could have bought every HUMAN BEING two iPhones...




For the cost of the Iraq War we could have desalinized enough seawater so that all Africans could drink safely until the year 10,000...




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GREAT resource. The material in it should be one of our TOP talking points.

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SICK! JUST SICK!

...plus the outstanding debt obligations due to the Iraq and Aphganistan Wars will top three trillion dollars, so most of us won't be able to afford even a used 10 year old Toyota

We're 'mericuns!
We're the baddest m'efer's on the planet.
Eff Africa!
If they don't have clean water that's their fault.
Quit letting your water buffaloes piss in it.
Then you'll have clean water.

A Prius for everyone?
Yeah, right.
Give everyone a jap car.
That's a great idea.
And a I-Phone?
Only New York and L.A. faggots use those.
We had to go kick some mooslim ass for 9/11 and they're all in Iraq!
What are you a communist?


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Ok get it?
That's my transcript (loosely based) of most of the Orlando cab drivers I've become accustomed to.
Except for two guys who are brothers.
One says "Countdown" is his favorite show and his brother thinks McCain is an "old whore".
I love those guys.

he cites a UN study showing that for <10% of our "defense" budget, we would make our over bloated military unnecessary. This amount would provide food, clean water, education, reproductive health care, and general health care to the whole world that lacks it.

If we did this, who would want to attack us? Osama Bin Laden became a ME superstar for building some roads and a few schools and a hospital. The entire American military mission could be accomplished with the state guards and a small reaction force for the inevitable wackos, not to mention the rebuilding and improvements to our own lives.

We have the means, where is the will?

I see it cited everywhere.

I always think of the ending of "Charlie Wilson's War", where Wilson tried to get a FEW MILLION dollars to help Afghanistan get schools, roads and other infrastructure - and he was turned down. After he'd managed to get BILLIONS for weapons to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.

Both he and the CIA said that investment in the region would have prevented the rise of Muslim fundamentalist domination in the area.

And what did we get? The Taleban and the rise of a guy named Osama bin Laden.

They dance to the tunes of their "campaign donors". We are an annoying inconvenience that must be tolerated every 2, 4, or 6 years to maintain the illusion of choice.

But yes, you have to read that book.

I missed that. Amazing, thank you.

Seriously? Is that right?

Let's do that!

conducted in 1998 and cost $40B p/yr. <10% of our "official" DoD budget. Disgusting.

if it's possible to do all that good with money we are wasting now. Even the most pro-military person would agree there is at least that much waste.

So for building the political will to make those choices instead, the work falls back to us!

Working on a client computer in a law office, waiting on some updates to install. Client says help yourself to one of my books to pass the time. So I pick up this book and read the first 100 pages. Amazing and disturbing read. I highly recommend it though. I'm buying my own copy so I can finish it.

that this is exactly the kind of stuff that "crazy, tin-foil hat wearing, woo-woos" were talking about 40 years ago. There are, in fact, evil operatives that fuck up the world in the name of our government for the benefit of corporations and quasi-governmental thugs like the WTO/IMF.

His next book deals with the "jackals" mentioned in "Hitman".

Of course Gen. Butler (2 time CMOH recipient) was also warning us about this very thing 80+ years ago, after he realized his whole career was spent subjugating people for United Fruit, Standard Oil, etc., and we ignored it then too.

and that CANNOT be allowed.

the iraq war did EXACTLY as it was intended.

Every single man, woman and child.

on edit> make that $100,000.00 per person - the costs keep going up - that's over a half-million dollars per household.

Don't we?

could we have educated our children through 4 years of college?
could we have saved the victims of katrina?
could we have saved the victims of the mines that caved?
could we have saved the victims of the bridge that collapsed?

i bet we could have. but the war served the empire, and the empire must be fed. fuck the people, save the empire.

tires me out. better to kill, maim and destroy than to build, save and educate.

It wouldn't have been fair to them.

They're ugly and they're a Toyota.

I'll wait on the European line from Ford, thank you.

you would rather complain about the price of gas? makes no sense to me. They make the best cars, and have solutions now, not some pie in the sky future like Ford, Chevy, et al.

Bush & the Republicans put the WAR on the Credit Card.
Our CHILDREN will have to pay for it!

Talk about Taxation without Representation!
Who speaks for the kids who will have to pay for this mess?
The Democrats????
:rofl:
They are busy shoveling MORE of your kid's money into the shithole.