We spent $47,126 for every person in Iraq

[KurtNYC]

That's $1 trillion (cost of the occupation) divided by 21 million people. Every single man, woman and child = $47,126. For a family of 4: $190,476.

Meanwhile the people of New Orleans get almost no help, millions of Americans go without healthcare, etc. Insanity.

[indepat]

1. Insanity multiplied infinity

[mmonk]

2. I'll make a deal with the government and they can save money

on me in the process. How about they spend a third of that on me this year and call it quits on Iraq.

[leveymg]

3. We should have dropped pallets of $100 bills on Baghdad. It would've been cheaper and more

effective.

[Jacobin]

6. Heh. We kinda already did that

They've used the money to buy arms to blow each other up,...at least the money our idiot warmongers didn't run off with

[Porcupine]

4. Well there are about 600,000 less of them to spend on........

not to mention the estimated 2 million refugees that have left the country. So given that there are now 2.6 million less people in Iraq than when the war started your maths are off.

Come back and bitch when you can get your facts straight.
:sarcasm::nuke:

Oh god I live in an insane asylum. Why can't the freaking media get this little fact straight. If we had offered every Iraqi of working age 10k to do anything resembaling work there would be no war today. But that would be socialism so NOOOO.

[Tace]

5. We Literally Could Have Purchased The Whole Country Of Iraq

But, of course the military industrial complex and everyone involved wouldn't have been able to get their war on, kill hundreds of thousands of people, play with their toys, blow everything up -- including the World Trade Center -- play dictator, destroy the U.S. constitution, subjugate the American people... and then make a trillion dollars building Iraq... hell the entire nuked Middle East... back up with Macdonald's and Walmarts in every town. Oh, and we used up all the weapons, so we need more of those, too. As my attorney would say, "That's a lot of money."

[RedStateShame]

7. Then that's who's paying my college loans.

Get me an address, I'll see if I can talk the student loan thugs into staying off my paycheck and collecting from a person in Baghdad.

[smoogatz]

8. Amazing, ain't it?

And what did we get in exchange for that largesse? A broken military, a failed state mired in a brutal civil war, 25,000 dead and wounded Americans, 600,000 dead Iraqis--no telling how many wounded. Let's put that trillion-dollar figure in perspective another way: it works out to $3333 for every man, woman and child in the U.S., or, even more staggering, roughly $5500 for evey American taxpayer, on average--the lion's share of which has gone straight into the pockets of arms manufacturers, military "contractor" outfits like Blackwater, and big logistics suppliers like Halliburton/KBR. It's a staggeringly brazen transfer of wealth from the middle class to big corporations--and we get nothing in return but a generation or two of militarized Iraqis, anxious to kill Americans. Heckuva job, W!

[ourvoicescount]

10. Well, when you put it that way...

It sounds like a bad thing...

If only we could get ALL of America to wake up to that too. What a waste of life, money and resources for everyone involved...

[liberal renegade]

9. Liars, thieves and killers

running the fucking freak show and we haven't been able to do a fucking thing about it. I knew the day the SCOTUS elevated Bush to DICTASTER, WE WE'RE DOOMED. ITMFA! :grr: