50,000 dead. $315 billion spent. And just WHAT have we accomplished?

[BigBearJohn]

50,000 is just a number. Yet, each one of those 50,000 people had dream, hopes and aspirations
just like you and me.

Three-hundred-fifteen billion dollars ...

Update : July 21, 2006

This is the amount of money the US has allocated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be spent by September 30, 2006, the end of the fiscal year. And the Senate is working on a spending bill that will add another $50 billion more in spending for 2007.

This pile is 125 feet wide, 200 feet deep, and 450 feet tall.

450 feet is the height of a 38-story building. It's the hieght of the Millenium Wheel in London. It is also the height of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and the Louisiana State Capitol Building.

If you were to stack the money in a single stack, your stack would be 19,887 miles tall, enough to wrap the Moon at its equator almost 3 times.



http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

[Why Syzygy]

1. And I say, surrender.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1989227#1989321

Let it begin with me.

How can we war against war? If the people of the world put down their swords and take up plows there would be no war.

Let it begin with me. And you.

[GOPBasher]

2. We brought freedom to Iraq!

Between 30,000 and 110,000 Iraqi civilians are now freed from the burden of life. And the population in general is now free from that annoying stuff like infrustructure and civil order.

[OneBlueSky]

3. we made Halliburton shareholders very rich . . . n/t

.

[izzie]

4. It does not seem to be enough to reach Bush in his bubble.

Two more years, if we are lucky it is only that long, and it will double.

[Kickoutthejams23]

5. In Iraq we made things 100 times worse for ourselves.

Knocking out the Taliban however was an appropriate response to 9/11 and I don't feel should be listed here. If anything we need more troops and money in Afghanistan and Western Pakistan.

[oblivious]

6. Killed lots of people. Made lots of enemies. Lost the world's respect.

Found out that bombs, missiles and tanks can't win wars anymore.

Apart from that, not much.

[gratuitous]

7. Phil Ochs

It's always the old to lead us to the war
Always the young to fall
Now, look at all we've won
with the saber and the gun
Tell me, is it worth it all?

[BigBearJohn]

8. No kidding.

[sweetheart]

9. Accomplished: "50,000 dead. $315 billion spent."

They are just theives and murderers, they achieved their objectives.

[BigBearJohn]

10. Talk about wrapping it up in a nutshell. You sure did it. Thanks.

[sweetheart]

11. It surely felt like an option

I remember before that war, when i was on the telephone with the live BBC transmitter in
rebuttal to the american undersecretary-retired of iraq-war-sales inc. back in 2003, and
as i recall, the crux of the argument was about whether 200 billion (that number back
when it was a myth), could better be spent to prevent terrorism if it were spent on global
education and disease prevention.

And as i recall, the diplomatic asshole representing "our" government replied that war
was necessary because (he left this out) he had been involved with selling iraq WMD's himself
when he was involved with the whole corrupt enterprise, and that just because i was not getting
a payout was no reason to break ranks.

And it was a moment in my soul, the moment when i was live on-line with this network
of evil entities, and in the end, their objective was to kill a lot of people,
and flush the surplus down the drain to supress womens' equality, and that i should
just stay silent, and not discover the true depth of the crime, even now, even now.

[Road Scholar]

12. Other than wreck our budget for generations to come and

neglect New Orleans victims ruin the lives of millions ie. lack of health care medical research skyrocketing drug prices and fuel cost doubling since Bush took office, not really that much.:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: