I finally sat down and did some number crunching. Various economic wizards have estimated that the cost of war in the past 10 years for the US--just Iraq and Afghanistan--has cost the US somewhere around 3 Trillion dollars in real hard-core money plus the various tangents of lost incomes, secondary and subsidiary markets--they admit it's not easy to estimate things like the on-going medical problems of the many wounded soldiers, etc. The most recent item I read said it takes $400,000 to deploy one soldier to those countries. They also pretty strongly believe that we would not have problems with oil prices, housing prices, and this monster recession if we'd kept our money in our pockets. This for a war that George W. estimated would cost 60 billion dollars.
This is for two countries that total about 60 million people.
That's about $50,000 PER PERSON in those two countries. Money we spent on THEM, not YOU and ME. Money we spent blowing them up, not building them up.
Why didn't we go help build some hospitals, libraries, schools, and various other infrastructure before we bombed the shit out of them for WMD that didn't exist? Maybe we could have built every family over there a nice little 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom ranch house. And bought them a nice little electric car from Detroit. And fed every starving person in the world.
Are we totally nuts? Is this fucking election over yet? Did Sarah Palin win? Does anybody feel like they "won?" Can I go back to the dungeon now? Gee, I can hardly wait to have the GOP back in my bedroom again.
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