What $1 Billion a week could buy

[mvd]

Here's what we are wasting with this illegal and wrong Iraq war:

http://www.onemillionreasons.org/article.php?id=440

DUers are welcome to add their own suggestions!

[tuvor]

1. The Iraqi oil revenues could almost pay for all of that...

14 million barrels a week at $67 per barrel equals 938 million dollars.

Who's getting all that cash, anyway?

[mvd]

2. Halliburton for one, I'm sure

:grr:

[tuvor]

3. I just noticed Lance Armstrong's quote on your link.

“ Funding is tough to come by these days. The biggest downside to a war in Iraq is what you could do with that money.
What does a war in Iraq cost a week? A billion? Maybe a billion a day? The budget for the National Cancer Institute is four billion. That has to change. It needs to become a priority again.

Polls say people are much more afraid of cancer than of a plane flying into their house or a bomb or any other form of terrorism. It is a priority for the American public. ”

Did he bother to ask bush any of that when he had the chance a few weeks ago?

[charlie]

4. A single billion

paid out at the rate of $1 a second ($86,400 per day), would last 31 and a half years.