when GWB asks for, and congress gives him, billions of dollars for the

[flordehinojos]

invasion and occupation of IRAQ, where do those billions of dollars go to? What do they purchase? And who owns or manufactures the items purchased with our tax dolars for the destruction of a land which never attacked or meant us harm? Do those dollars somehow make a round trip to find their way into the Carlyle Group Coffers, the Bushes bank accounts, The Texas Ranch Brush? Where, o where do those dollars go?

[OnlyInAmerica]

1. Well

Probably half of it goes to Haliburton and other "civilian contractors", but there are also soldiers' salaries, ammo, fuel, spare parts, supplies, and a million other expenses I couldn't begin to think about.

[cornermouse]

2. Where it doesn't go...

Armor for vehicles. Vests to protect our people.

[ET Awful]

4. Soldiers salaries are NOT part of it,salaries would be paid regardless

of whether they were deployed abroad or not.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Everywhere...

Noticed how the price of plywood skyrocketed? They bought the entire output from several plants to rebuild the schools and hospitals we bombed.

Supplemental DoD appropriations to buy more bombs, fuel, ammo, etc. Transporting and replacing the stuff we use in war costs a bundle.

Buying gas from Kuwait to resell to the Iraqis, rebuilding the oilfield infrastucture that was bombed or sabotaged, hiring the civilian contractors to do everything from drive trucks to constuction work to torturing prisoners...

And, yes, at least five of th4e major contractors are big Shrub supporters.

[illflem]

5. ******

[peacetalksforall]

6. The other day I took the cost of war figures from

the www.costofwar.com website and divided it by the estimated number of Iraqis that have been killed.

$147,562,000,000 divided by 15,000

It means we have paid $9,837,466.00 for each Iraqi that has died.

That means our inital contribution of $15 million to the tsunami aid was equal to about 1 3/4 Iraqi.

Cruel? Blunt? That's the kind of calculation they conduct in a think tank where the real cruelty is plotted and planned.

The figures above are from about three days agao. As Sen. Leahy said, we spend about 7 million before breakfast (in America) to bring democracy to an oil country.