Shutting down the government, shopping around for another foreign land to

[HysteryDiagnosis]

plant some bombs in. If we had the dough WASTED in Iraq we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, I wonder if this fact is lost on the shrub loving repubs.

http://87billion.com/

On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was going to ask the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2004, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since before then, to the end of September, 2007, the United States has dedicated approximately $315 billion dollars to the cause.

But these amounts of money are an impossible for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look....

[obxhead]

1. The really sad thing?

One day this stack will equal the size of the trade towers that were knocked down.

Add in the human casualties on both side and weeping for a lifetime will only be a small down payment on what is really owed.

[ixion]

2. Generations of misery and permanent war.

Joy.

[PDJane]

3. The permanent war

is an almost inevitable result of an economy based on growth within a finite system. Just keep blowing things up, and the rebuilding and disaster planning will take care of the money.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Well we sell most of it, why not blow it up so we can sell even more?? n/t

[PDJane]

5. Because:

a) It's a damned expensive way to promote infrastructure spending;
b) The rebuilding, if Iraq is any indication, tends to be worse than the original structures could ever be;
c) The disposessed increase, and starvation is wasteful;
d) The US is going to end up with a third world economy, because these folks are looking at their military spending in the same way that they look at medical care; it's only for the rich.

I could go on for pages, but why bother?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Hey, we fixed Iraq, sort of. Isn't it amazing that what you have stated is common

knowledge but the song remains the same?