300 Billion spent so far slaughtering people WHO DID NOT ATTACK US

[mopaul]

...on 9-11.... Now president cheney and his pet monkey need ANOTHER 80 billion.

As long as we can still get cheap gas and cheap crap at walmart, it's o.k.

[da_chimperor]

1. 80 billion, you mean.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-01-24-iraq-spending_x.htm

[mopaul]

3. my math is terrible

thanks. a few bill here a few bill there, before you know it, you're talking about some real money.

[da_chimperor]

7. Mine is less than super, so I understand n/t

[ladjf]

5. 80 billion 2005.

Iraq War Costs Could Top $80 Billion in 2005
by Steve Inskeep

Morning Edition, December 16, 2004 · The Congressional Budget Office projects that the cost of the war in Iraq could surpass $80 billion in fiscal 2005. That would send total expenditures for the war past $200 billion. The estimated price tag for the conflict has steadily escalated. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep

[indepat]

10. An estimated 100,000 Iraqis killed for only $200B would seem killing

on the cheap at only some $2,000,000 per head.

[ladjf]

11. Well, there are 28 million Iraqis. The war is getting to be a bit

"pricey". Further, with several million Iraqi teenage boys maturing into fighting age, we'd have to kill thousands daily to keep up with the new insurgent's enlistments. I point this out just to show that it's going to be impossible to stop them. There are more of them that the U.S. has money back the slaughter.

It seems that the level of insanity increases daily. Will there ever be an end to this nightmare?

[July]

20. According to that article, $121 billion so far, not including the $80b

requested now.

[Dhalgren]

2. This whole nation is mad and is led by madmen!

How do go about administering electroshock to an entire nation?

We need a big Indian to pull the fountain up out of the floor and throw it through the window...

[ladjf]

6. Our situation is beyond "Cuckoo".

I can't imagine how we are going to be able to regain control of the
government. They seem to have covered all power bases. We are prisoners and they have the keys.

But, one thing is certain. Unless we can clean up the fraudulent election practices, nothing else stands a chance. How are we going to have a physical revolution? There is no chance of any sort of actual "in the streets" style resistance. They've already got camps built around the country to incarcerate any resisters.

[ladjf]

4. I think taking the country to war and killing those people

is criminal. They should be arrested, tried and convicted.

[spanone]

8. Yea, but they get to vote on Sunday...Whoop-dee-doo!!!!

And soon they too will have Wal-Marts, which is more important than democracy or maybe it's the same thing???? P.S. you know that congress will probably give them 90 billion.

[mopaul]

9. we wouldn't even notice it if they jacked it up to 100 billion

nobody is really counting all that money, and no one is going to be held accountable, so, anything goes.

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. You're wrong. Somebody is counting that money.

Haliburton, Cheney...

[Yuugal]

12. 80 billion for next 12 months?

That would be, um..... 6.66 billion a month? Just the amount I'd expect the antichrist to spend.

[mopaul]

13. the devil is in the details.....thanks for de-cyphering that

6.66....scary

[Strelnikov_]

14. Things $300 b Would Buy

18 Quad of wind generating capacity, which would replace 50% of US natural gas consumption or 32% of petroleum consumption.

or

5.7 Quad of nuclear power, which would boost current US nuclear electric production by 73%.

I really do not see Iraq ever yielding 32% of current US petroleum consumption (5.76 M bbl/day of 18 M bbl/day current consumption).

Looks like we have all become investors in another money losing Boosh energy deal.

[spanone]

15. And where does that money go???????

[realFedUp]

16. I still think Saddam would have sold the place...

lock, stock and barrels of oil for
about $2 billion.

Too bad this administration can't
at least be that open about their
intentions. Would have saved us
a lot of lives, money and reputation.

I do have my tongue in my cheek on
this one :-)

[tubbacheez]

17. Only some of that 300 billion was spent on killing innocents.

Remember, a good portion got skimmed off the top by U.S. companies like Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel, Blackwater, etc.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. Interesting that we could spend 300 billion in Iraq in three years

while 10 years in Vietnam cost us 500 billion.

I think * is going for another record, folks.

[hector459]

21. Not only did they NOT attack us, they never intended to!!!

How can anyone justify what we did, are doing, and will do to Iraq? It was all part of a scheme to takeover the ME with a "greater ME." These people will be no better off when the smoke settles. They will have traded one tyrant for a group of tyrants called the "western allies." We have merely laid the ground work for Israel being able to attack Syria and Iran with impunity and as usual, no repercussions from the rest of the world. Our troops are firmly planted in Iraq which is now become our military outpost dead in the middle of the Arab nations. It's our "new crusade" and the blood is just beginning to spill.

Folks, you have got to read "Cofessions of An Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins. It seems like fiction, but it is not. We have lived it for the past 50 years and what is going on in Venezueala is proof that it is still going on and nothing is going to stop it because we always kill the people who try.

[Ms. Clio]

22. I keep meaning to get that book--thanks for the reminder

And great post, I completely agree.

This war really makes an abomination out of the words "liberation" "freedom" and "democracy." How will history grapple with the monstrous hypocrisy? No wonder so many Americans just can't deal with the reality of it all.

[imax2268]

23. so I guess

Kerry said the war was closing in on the 200 billion mark...I guess he wasn't to far off now was he...and look at all the shit he got for it...