[Master Belisarius]

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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I'm sure this war will return the investment to both sides: at the end, Iraq have enough resources to pay any debt with US, and also, the people in USA will sleep more safe because the Saddam's weapons never will be a menace again.
In the other hand, the people of Iraq will have great returns too: what is some blood and oil, compared to receive the freedom?