U.S. Aid in Iraq Now Equal to Assistance in Germany After World War II

[SHRED]

U.S. assistance to Germany totaled some $4.3 billion ($29.3 billion in 2005 dollars) for the years of direct military government (May 1945-May 1949) and the overlapping Marshall Plan years (1948/1949-1952).

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/05/iraq-germany/

[oblivious]

1. Well a fat lot of good that did (the Iraq bit, I mean)

[Divernan]

2. Except no American servicemen/women were killed in Germany

during the occupation of that country - except for a few traffic type accidents. But not from hostile fire.

[Ilsa]

3. Freeptoid response: Hey, yeah, but don't you know someone gets murdered

in Houston every night, and someone in Detroit gets killed in a traffic accident every day? How do you explain that? Huh? What about it? Huh? Huh? :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Inland]

4. Well, that's so easily disposed of.

The GIs killed in Iraq aren't the only deaths. There's civilian murders and car accidents on top of that.

The analogy for a US soldier (or an Iraqi soldier or policeman) getting killed in Iraq would be a cop killing in the US. A cop killing in the US is a big deal. Doesn't happen six times a week.

[Ilsa]

5. Whenever I hear them say this "comparative" crap about US deaths,

I get angry about how dismissive they are of any of these deaths. I also get pissed about how it is such a bogus argument.

[bbinacan]

7. Very good point. n/t

[bbinacan]

6. What am I missing here, I ran the CPI calculator

and found that $1 in 1945 was equal to $10.85 in 2005. So, what is 4.3 billion times 10.85? It is not 29.3 billion. So, 4,300,000,000 x 10.85=how much?

[bbinacan]

8. I worked through the math

4.3 Billion in 1945 equates to 46.655 billion in 2005 dollars.

[SHRED]

9. good catch

[Javaman]

10. I'm waiting for the day we pullout of that mess and china or russia

steps in with their own type of Marshal Plan to fix the area.

Now wouldn't that be the end all be all?

Don't think it ain't gonna happen...

colossal racist failure*.