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[pmb]

Y'know, we could have just given every Iraqi citizen $37 336.58 and we'd still be ahead by 3,000 american lives and 500,000 iraqi lives. A trillion is a very large number. I bet that, for a flat rate of 37k per capita, we could have gotten the entire Iraqi army to overthrow Saddam all on their own.

Or, as an alternate view, you and I and everyone we know in this country has paid or will pay 4,000 dollars each for this useless war.

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the horrible part, of course, is the many deaths and far far more injured--the serious injuries actually worry me as much or more than all the deaths, as many of them are permanently disabling injuries, like losing a leg, that would have been death even in Vietnam, but our medicine has gotten better. Yay medicine getting better, yay people not dying, but the death count is misleading if you consider the effect on the US -- tens of thousands of seriously traumatized, possibly psychologically impaired, not being well taken care of, physically highly damaged, veterans.

But then there's the billions of dollars that actually weren't spend on Iraqi infrastructure or American equipment and food, but were simply siphoned off into bank accounts.