7 Facts About The Cost Of The Iraq War That Will Blow Your Mind

nadinbrzezinski

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Sat Oct-22-11 11:49 PM
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7 Facts About The Cost Of The Iraq War That Will Blow Your Mind

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/7-facts-about-the-cost-of-the-iraq-war-that-will-b

Good and amazing facts, what 2 trillion could buy

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Kalidurga

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Sat Oct-22-11 11:59 PM
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1. I give it a rec...

but, I don't think I can stand to read the article...

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:00 AM
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2. A bunch of photos, that tell you what we could have gotten

for example, 6,600 bucks to each of us...

Or health care for 20 years to each American

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NYC_SKP

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:16 AM
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6. Or Bacon.

just for kicks! (k/r)

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:17 AM
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7. I found that fumny

I am sure they included it for the fun factor

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Suich

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:04 AM
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3. Wow!

K&R!

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begin_within

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:05 AM
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4. So where did the $2 trillion end up anyway?

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:08 AM
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5. Well we know they don't know where 100 million

went to, just poof. The rest... well a troop ran a million a year to field.

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begin_within

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:20 AM
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8. And how much of that was actual pay to the troop?

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:31 AM
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10. Oh that million includes pay

Edited on Sun Oct-23-11 12:31 AM by nadinbrzezinski

Now each merc, triple the cost...partly the pay.

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begin_within

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:44 AM
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13. Yes, but how much did the troop get paid?

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:55 AM
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15. Anywhere from 22k to 70k

Dfas has your answer.

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Scuba

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Sun Oct-23-11 07:02 AM
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20. We're probably three times that by now, but we'll never know the truth. n/t

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slipslidingaway

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:29 AM
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9. "Immunize every child in the world against deadly diseases (1.3 billion a year for 583 years)" n/t

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tabatha

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:37 AM
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11. The Iraq war is going to go down as the biggest shame of the US.

Even returning US military say it was not worth it; Iraqis say that it was not worth it.

Sorry Karl Rove, history will not change that opinion.

I hope an author somewhere does interviews with all returning vets to get the story of what went on.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:41 AM
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12. Some of what went on we're war crimes

And until we face to that as a country...we will do this again. Of course some of them attitudes are also comming home. So that will be interesting.

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tabatha

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:49 AM
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14. Unfortunately, where there is war, there are war crimes.

The world should rid itself of weapons, so that war cannot be fought.

Maybe they should have virtual wars on computers to see who wins without blowing anything up.

Too bad, that one of the biggest exports of the US is weapons.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 12:56 AM
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16. That IS a star trek episode

And sadly I think it's in the genes. I mean, dolphins chimps and elephants do go to war.

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slipslidingaway

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Sun Oct-23-11 01:01 AM
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17. Yet we're told we need to look forward :( nt

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minavasht

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Sun Oct-23-11 02:21 AM
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18. I've always been bad at math

but #4 got me confused - $100 billion divided by 300 million americans = $333 per person.
How is that going to pay for healthcare for a whole year? Everybody gets a box of Robitussin and a pack of band aids and applies them as needed? Group X-rays?

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Oct-23-11 02:26 AM
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19. Actually if we did preventive medicine

You'd get quite a bit of bang fer buck. In fact doing that you'd spend a lot less in the majority of a healthy population and a lot more on the non healthy. An example...a flu shot runs about twenty bucks. An influenza course with ICU care...we are talking thousands.

I hope this encourages you to look into why this is a good idea.

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minavasht

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Sun Oct-23-11 01:06 PM
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22. I agree it is a good idea

it is the numbers that don't look right to me.

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madokie

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Sun Oct-23-11 07:07 AM
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21. All so the dick could steal their oil

Or his oil under their sand.

Things are starting to look better with the the onset of the OWS set ins.

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malaise

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Sun Oct-23-11 01:07 PM
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23. Good info

Rec

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GeorgeGist

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Sun Oct-23-11 02:18 PM
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24. Doing the math ...

I find that the current cost of healthcare in the US is about $2 trillion/yr; not $100 billion.

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