How much does it cost the US to "bring freedom" to someone? [View All]

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So, I was thinking about this additional $80 billion that Bush is asking congress for. The estimates I have read total the total cost of the post-9/11 "war on terror" at $280B.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/10727626.htm

Of course freedom is priceless. But everything has a cost. So how much has it cost so far to "free" all the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Let's assume that we pull out all of our troops after the elections, and both Iraq and Afghanistan turn into amazing, peaceful, democratic utopias.

Population of Iraq: 25,374,691
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html
Population of Afghanistan: 28,513,677
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Total Population of Iraq and Afghanistan: 53,888,367
Total Cost per "free person": $5,195

Boy, that seems AWFUL inefficient. And the cost will become fairly prohibitive to us "freeing" the rest of the world too. Let's see...

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html
Iran: 69,018,924
Cost: $358,553,310,180

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sy.html
Syria: 18,056,874
Cost: $93,805,460,430

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html
N. Korea: 22,697,553
Cost: $117,913,787,835

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
China: 1,298,847,624
Cost: $6,747,513,406,680


Are my numbers right here???