How are we going to pay for Iraq?

[SHRED]

The final tax dollar expenditure, for the total cost of the Iraq occupation, is estimated to go to $1.3 trillion.

For perspective of what that amount is, you would have to make payments of $1 million a day, every day, for the next 3,500 years.
And that isn't including interest!

How are we suppose to pay for this again?

[rucky]

1. You'll have to ask my 2-year-old daughter. n/t

[walldude]

5. Beat me to it.. We aren't going to pay, it'll be our children

and probably their children, and it won't be just in dollars.

[misternormal]

2. Capitol One... What's in your wallet?? n/t

[chookie]

3. Think of all the money we are saving...

...by not rebuilding the devastated Gulf Coast. In cutting DHS funds from NYC. In cutting Veterans benefits. All of these savings will go to paying for the occupation of Iraq.

Then there is the unprecedented US debt and trade imbalance. Iraq is just one part of the economic mess that threatens our national security.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Borrow, borrow, borrow. And, tell the creditors the check is in the mail

And, hope that they don't foreclose.

[izzie]

6. Yesterday a 'snow job' and to day a 'round robin'

We pay the heads of the military companies so much money that they pay more in tax so we take in more money so we can go to war so we can pay great deal of money to the CEO of military companies and so on.

[Cleita]

7. A better question is how are we going to make the perpetrators

pay for it. I think we should go after everyone of those neo-cons fortunes with whatever laws we can use to garnishee and appropriate assets from not only the BFEE, but those involved with them like Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. Also, corporations like Halliburton need to be audited by the GAC and their assets impounded if cheating and other laws that have been broken come to light and then we can attach the assets of those corporations as well.

However, you and I can't do it. I would like to see a group of lawyers and accountants form a grassroots organization to do this. First research any and all laws that can be used and then get the wheels rolling. I would be a contributor as I am sure many other true patriots would be.

I would like to see Nuremberg style trials to be held with every single one of them called to testify under oath their hand in this.

[Joey Liberal]

8. Tom DeLay says we should cut more taxes

Somehow, in the twisted minds of republicans, increased spending and reduced revenues will pay for it.

[RagAss]

9. You're thinking the "old way"...they have no intention of paying

anything off....this is it for them...World War....total destruction.....survivor takes all.....

and we are fucked.......

[Nite Owl]

10. Social Security and every

other domestic program. We (the poor, the middle class) have to make sacrifices for the Homeland ya know. They dominate we don't.