WAR IN 2005 MAY COST 60 BILLION - NOT 25 BILLION

[MaryH]

I just saw this headline on USA Today. My computer isn't working right so can't give you the address.

So, it's July and we think it will cost 60 billion - that means by 2005 it will probably be up to 120 billion.

I wonder how much healthcare that would have paid for? How many classes for underpriviledged kids? how many medicines for the poor and elderly?

Call me unpatriotic - but someone needs to be asking those questions.

[graham67]

1. Find out what we could done instead of this war.

http://www.costofwar.com

[mstrsplinter326]

2. The last figure I saw

For Universal Health Care had it's intial cost at less than 60 billion, but I don't remeber what number I saw.

That's insane - the cost of switching the entire health system from the top down less than a year of a war for nothing.

You seem fired up - go see F911 if you haven't. It made me truely understand the toll and the pointlessness of this war.

[NMDemDist2]

unpatriotic? I don't think so, you're in the democratic underground now

Mary and welcome :hi:

i was thinking today of all the things we could have done to truly protect our country with all the billions wasted in Iraqi such as

Port Security
First responders communication upgrades
Rail security
Power plant and grid security/upgrades
Roads and bridges

the list goes on and on and it would have had the added benefit of jobs for Americans

<sigh> just a thought....

[havocmom]

3. Just the cost of dealing with all the NEW terrorists US policy is creating

will cost billions per year for decades. The junta has assured their pals will make plenty of $$ on government contracts even after they get tossed out of DC. The neocon policies are creating so many new potential terrorists that we will live in a state of semi-siege for the rest of our lives.

There is no way to measure the damage they have done to America and the world. There is no punishment great enough to atone for their evil.

[madrchsod]

4. with 120 billion we could have

bought off saddam and his crew,paid the iraqi arny to enforce the transfer and had change left over to restore the country to pre gw1 level. we would have left the baath party in charge untill there was a system to hold free elections. we would have had fewer deaths and the oil would be flowing and most important we would have had an important allied in the region...but no ,that`s not the way we do things in the ussr