When you were a kid did you ever try to count to a million? I guess I tried but I don't think I ever got past a couple of thousand before I forgot where I was. The numbers we hear from our government are always somewhere north of a million or billion and even a trillion. What does that mean? Well, if you started to count consecutively from zero to a million and you counted one number per second (which gets hard when you get to um, like, one hundred twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six) it would take a little more than two hundred and seventy five hours - if you slept just four hours a day and did nothing but count. That's about fourteen days. At that rapid but astounding rate it would take about thirty eight years to get to a billion, and four hundred and sixty years to get to twelve billion. That is coincidentally the same number as dollars that we are spending in Iraq every month. Maybe John McCain has it right, and it will take us that long to count it. Let's see, a trillion is...
lambovet posted on May 09, 2008
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silverwhisper said on May 10, 2008....
we're spending $12 billion/month in iraq? i've seen that figure before, but do you have a source for it?
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stopmediabias said on May 20, 2008....
The cost is a hiccup to our GDP. Vietnam was 12% and Iraq is only about 2%. It is still an if but when Iraq succeeds and becomes a prosperous nation and a friend in an otherwise terrible place the cost will be well worth it.
If you want to compare costs look at what NASA waists every year. Look at what our government spends on foreign aid, AIDS in Africa, Global warming research, etc... Granted I'm all for all of the above but if you are going to make the "wouldn't that money best be spent somewhere else?" argument, you have to look at everything.
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lambovet said on May 20, 2008....
SMB- I absolutely agree about the financial part of the equation. Now about the hundreds or thousands of dead Iraqis. Oh yeah, and the four thousand plus American dead... -
stopmediabias said on May 23, 2008....
Unfortunatly we have to wiegh human life. How many Iraqis would have been planted if we left Iraq alone. How many Americans and others around the world would or could end up dead if Saddam got a nuke and sold it to a terrorist? Look at Saddam's 30 year history of torture, rape, and murder. He holds a body count of somewhere in the millions. How many people are him and his wacko sons going to kill now?
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Cap.america said on Jul 24, 2008....
stop Bush and McCain now -
stopmediabias said on Jul 27, 2008....
ca- "yawn"
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