[rextorres]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:

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Originally posted by rextorres:
While doing my taxes I just realized that based on the number of tax payers in this country we've each - on avg. - just paid around $800 of our hard earned money to blow up Iraq. We could have given every man, woman, and child of Iraq $4500. Kind of wacky if you ask me. This is based on $100B price tag for this adventure.

It's been tried before. It was called the "Oil for Food" program. The only ones who saw any of the money were Saddam and his "praetorians" (because they controlled the south), and the Kurds (because their distribution program wasn't controlled by Saddam).

So, you are not convinced that this war was a good return on the investment?

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Not if they don't find significant amounts of WMDs. I'm not talking mustard gas either - or a few rusted barrels of sarin -(I am not sure when this war became about liberating the Iraqi people BTW). I want to see a huge wmd plant that had been churning out weapons.

If it had been my money I would have invested it in improving gas mileage - or how about a middle class tax cut - I could give you a laundry list. Or better yet I would pay off North Korea.

[ April 08, 2003, 10:30: Message edited by: rextorres ]