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Cost of war

Hey Americans, look what your wonderful government could have done witht he money that was spent on the war!

www.costofwar.com


P.S Izzy, where are the weapons of mass destruction you thought Powell proved to be manufactured in his presentation?

very interesting site.. it definatly gets bookmarked =]

interesting.

Definitely a bookmark! Very interesting stuff here. Can't wait to show some super pro-Bush people that I know this.

Looked pretty scientific.

think of all the classes bush could take with this money! he couldve finally learned the alphabet!

That's chump change compared to what they've spent on a far more ridiculous war - the war on drugs, but I digress...

In any case one can be reasonably sure that even if we didn't spend all that money on the war in Iraq, we wouldn't have spent it wisely anyway. Best that our government doesn't take it away from us in the first place to fund its inane project-o-the-moment.

I'm sure that Bush would have galdly used that money for some other pointless war...

If any weapons of mass destruction are found I�d be willing to speculate they were a plant anyway.

By the bye, cool link.

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Conflict Cost in Current/ $ Billions/ Per Capita 1990s (in $1990) The Revolution (1775-1783) .10 / 1.2 /$ 342.86 War of 1812 (1812-1815) .09 / 0.7 / 92.11 Mexican War (1846-1848) .07 / 1.1 / 52.13 Civil War (1861-1865): Union 3.20 / 27.3 / 1,041.98 : Confederate 2.00 / 17.1 / 2,111.11 : Combined 5.20 / 44.4 / 1,294.46 Spanish American War (1898) .40 / 6.3 / 84.45 World War I (1917-1918) 26.00 / 196.5 / 1,911.47 World War II (1941-1945) 288.00 / 2,091.3 / 15,655.17 Korea (1950-1953) 54.00 / 263.9 / 1,739.62 Vietnam (1964-1972) 111.00 / 346.7 / 1,692.04 Gulf War (1990-1991) 61.00 / 61.1 / 235.00

Sorry for the bad formatting. In per capita costs, it's not all that different from previous wars in the past. We'll see how much the total cost is following the end of conflict however.

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Originally posted by occrider Sorry for the bad formatting. In per capita costs, it's not all that different from previous wars in the past. We'll see how much the total cost is following the end of conflict however.

Yeah, but thosw ars were more necessary and at least there was a reason for them!!!

Rumsfeld reported that some 4 or 9 thousand millions of dollars are spend monthly on Iraq alone... add Afghanistan.. mmmm scary numbers.

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Originally posted by Cyrus King P.S Izzy, where are the weapons of mass destruction you thought Powell proved to be manufactured in his presentation?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003...ain552195.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2971464.stm
I'm glad the US had the balls to remove a terrorist such as saddam.

Although WMD's have not been found and i doubt if they ever will be, i promise you will get more then enough evidence, showing the Iraq did have a WMD program that would equipt the country with the weapons nessacry when desired, when the US finishes up its investigations/interagations.

yes but then again, that knowledge (building wmd) is not so hard to get nowadays. basically any country can starts its own wmd program. is this a reason to hold an entire population hostage and declare wars here and there? After all, all the iraqi regime wanted to do is to balance the power in the region with israel having an array of wmd loaded and ready for launch 24/7.

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Originally posted by Izzy http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003...ain552195.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2971464.stm I'm glad the US had the balls to remove a terrorist such as saddam. Although WMD's have not been found and i doubt if they ever will be, i promise you will get more then enough evidence, showing the Iraq did have a WMD program that would equipt the country with the weapons nessacry when desired, when the US finishes up its investigations/interagations.

Now Izzy, that's the wrong way to approach the world. Who cares whether a dictator oppresses and murders his own people in N. Korea, Iraq, Serbia, etc.? We must set an example such as Africa and ignore the situation unless it directly effects our well-being or occurrs somewhere relatively close to the western civilized world.

Bush should have not lied and simply told the truth from the get go and explained that he wanted to rid the region of an instable, hostile, brutal dictator. One must look at the current situation pragmatically.

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Originally posted by occrider Now Izzy, that's the wrong way to approach the world. Who cares whether a dictator oppresses and murders his own people in N. Korea, Iraq, Serbia, etc.? We must set an example such as Africa and ignore the situation unless it directly effects our well-being or occurrs somewhere relatively close to the western civilized world.

Hehe, you're starting to sound like Pat Buchanan.
btw i think he'd be a perfect cadidate to the list in your sig

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Bush should have not lied and simply told the truth from the get go and explained that he wanted to rid the region of an instable, hostile, brutal dictator. One must look at the current situation pragmatically.

i agree, however no one really knew whether or not saddam actually had the weapons or not. According to his intellegence Bush belived saddam did posses them... it turns out he was wrong... however that does not make him a lier.

Wow. I wish I had seen this before!

Bush rallied, or exagerated intelligence information for a war.. blah.. w/e. Today we see how he's getting deeper into that poop hole.

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