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- DooM, on 06/21/2008, -6/+78Meh - don't get TOO bent out of shape. China has us covered for all of it. :|
- rollerboy, on 06/21/2008, -13/+70I'm no economist but isn't it fair to blame our economic problems on the war in Iraq?
- fanclerks, on 06/21/2008, -3/+53This is a perfect example of exactly what Eisenhower was warning us about. The military/industrial complex will ruin this country. No wonder our founding fathers tried to prevent a standing army in this country.
Watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY&feature ... if you want to see his speech. - MacBookForMe, on 06/20/2008, -5/+45what a waste!!! and a financial crisis all over the planet
- lordenlil, on 06/21/2008, -8/+39Wtf was up with understanding the money through flagpins?
- LoveYouSomeEric, on 06/21/2008, -2/+32Yes.
- sylvok, on 06/21/2008, -3/+32Its an odd style of video recording. Dugg
- cerealjynx, on 06/21/2008, -2/+21War...has changed.
- freshpow, on 06/21/2008, -5/+23The facts don't lie.
I just wonder if there was no war, would the current administration would have spend then money on military purposes anyway? - TheBigBentley, on 06/21/2008, -1/+19I hate pennies.
- RusskiGuy, on 06/21/2008, -4/+21Why were the casualties in small print at the end? I'd say they factor into the cost of war very well. Even if they only meant the financial side of it: 4101 (people) x $400,000 (death benefits to the family of military members) = 1,640,400,000.
There are always going to be wars to be fought, this one, however, should and could have been avoided. - ModernChem, on 06/21/2008, -1/+18actually his comment is anti-hippy
- mormo92, on 06/21/2008, -4/+20If they spent all that money on Elementary schools and Healthcare for children, how would Haliburton line their pockets?
- Hello1024, on 06/21/2008, -0/+16You'd just have a large pile of pennies - now what?
- LivingMachine, on 06/21/2008, -1/+17if i had a penny for every moron trying to justify the war.....
- Thekirby45, on 06/21/2008, -2/+17best music ever
- bronowiczj, on 06/21/2008, -0/+14$200 mill, $341.4 mill, $720 mill, an embassy that costs $1 billion.... how can any of those numbers be acceptable? low ball it, high ball, it still a ***** travesty....
- cerealjynx, on 06/21/2008, -0/+13It's no longer about nations, idologies, or ethnicity, it's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines.
- Hello1024, on 06/21/2008, -3/+16Does anyone get the feeling the Afghan and Iraq wars were just to prepare for the Iran war? - take a look at the map and you'll see having control of Iraq and Afghanistan will make an Iran war a whole lot easier.
Also, Iran is bigger and wealthier, so being able to attack from both sides would be a benefit.
Map link for those of us with limited geography: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=i ... - monsterenergy, on 06/21/2008, -1/+13Except, it is *literally* 720 million a day...
- opticwind, on 06/21/2008, -3/+15This sounded rather high so I decided to look into it. Here's a quote, the entire quote (not out of context), about the estimates:
"The Iraq War supplemental funding bills passed by Congress comes to $410 billion for four years or about $280 million/day. The additional $440 million/day represents the costs already incurred but not yet paid for such as paying the interest on the war debt, caring for the wounded, replenishing military equipment and rebuilding Iraq."
So a majority of this number is based on estimates, albeit reasonable ones. However, 280 mil is still pretty high. - LucerinRed, on 06/21/2008, -5/+16Spending money on the military isn't a bad thing. Spending money on a drawn-out, overseas war is. Having a strong national defense is really in the interest of everyone. It does more then build fighter planes. It drives innovation for new technologies and creates a large number of jobs both internally and externally of the armed forces. Spending all that money maintaining a global empire does this as well, but on a much, much smaller scale and ends up costing us more than we gain.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -1/+12The real cost of war is measured in lives needlessly lost.
- ph070sh0p, on 06/21/2008, -1/+12Because they are stupid and in no way show someone is a patriot. We seem to be one of the few countries with an almost cult-like devotion to our flag, rather to stuff that is actually important.
- Tweaka, on 06/21/2008, -0/+9Hes quoting for Metal Gear 4. It's a line from the story.
- Brian48216, on 06/21/2008, -0/+9it's called situational irony
- gazaa, on 06/21/2008, -0/+8Perhaps the money would have been spent teaching basic grammar.
- identitymatrix, on 06/21/2008, -0/+8Yeah. I'm totally convinced that all 92,787 Iraqi civilians that have died during the occupation were hardened terrorists.
body count source: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ - ManuS, on 06/21/2008, -2/+10Buried for inaccurate. What about how much it cost Iraq and the number of innocents who died there? Can we even put a number to it?
http://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/k ... - dsmx, on 06/21/2008, -3/+11Imagine how much scientific research could of got done for that amount of money.
- SevenTwo, on 06/21/2008, -0/+7You mean from Metal Gear Solid 4, which would mean he meant to say what he said.
- RusskiGuy, on 06/21/2008, -0/+7Remember that the money would be recycled just as well, if not better, if we spent that money here on such things as... oh, I don't know health care, creating jobs, promoting education and making it more affordable, federal grants to states with budget deficit (CA could use $16 billion alone)... the list could go on forever, and the benefits would be much more tangible and appreciated than a war that gained us virtually nothing.
- insanebrain, on 06/21/2008, -1/+8you are *literally* a dumb ass.
- JettaMan, on 06/21/2008, -2/+9I don't think they should "use that money" in better ways. The best way to "use it" would be to allow it to remain in the hands of the people it is confiscated from (taxpayers).
- skodai, on 06/21/2008, -1/+7Those people would be idiots.
- BDOUG, on 06/21/2008, -0/+6This sure is an expensive, futile, and stubborn way to delay any serious attempt at curing our national petroleum addiction. We're like alchoholics robbing liquor stores now. Good job, us.
- MrTankJump, on 06/21/2008, -1/+7Coinstar!
- fanclerks, on 06/21/2008, -0/+6How about we leave and let them kill each other like they want to? We're in the middle of a civil war over there and they're pissed at us because of the fact that WE'RE THERE! That's what caused 9/11. We were in Saudi Arabia and they don't want us there. We stick our noses where they don't belong and people get pissed off at us for it. What else did we expect to happen??
- hazard99, on 06/22/2008, -0/+6You should buy yourself a metronome. You'd probably ***** yourself.
- yosserhughes, on 06/21/2008, -2/+7Here's a better one:
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home - Hetman, on 06/21/2008, -0/+5"or what you've read in the Constitution." Yea the constitution is horrible it should be burned sarcasm/
- antonio97b, on 06/21/2008, -0/+5[citation needed] for US spending the most on education.
- insanebrain, on 06/21/2008, -2/+7since when ? People still die. .. GOP still keeps being ***** by sending our children into a useless war. .. people still keep doing what their government says ...
tell me. . what has changed ? - ciaran036, on 06/21/2008, -0/+5No its not. Its full of millions of innocent people, dozens falling victim to US forces or small groups of terrorists every day. N.Ireland's sectarian violence ended without a third party entering the violent conflict. Iraq's will as well. When the troops leave, the 'insurgents' will have no-one to fight with. Instead, money should be donated to the Iraqi security forces to deal with the sectarian violence themselves and in the same way as Bill Clinton came to N.Ireland to spread peace through speeches and talking with politicians, the same can be done in Iraq. The sectarian groups that are fighting can be initially divided to stop physical assault. Then, in the same way as Catholics and Protestants were brought together in N.Ireland through teaching 'Citizenship' in schools, encouraging them to work together in the workplace, politics and schools, and through cross-community encounters in schools and youth groups, the Sunni and Shi'ite groups can be brought together. Despite the political and religious differences, the groups CAN live alongside one another, as proven by recent peace in N.Ireland.
- mijelh, on 06/21/2008, -0/+5So can you explain me how is it different to expend $720 million a day from expending 262.800$ millions per year?? It doesn't changes a thing, plus someone thinking that someone is writing a cheque daily to pay the war is probably not intelligent enough to understand the purpose of the video(s).
- ABadPerson, on 06/22/2008, -0/+5non-sense, think of all the money the banks are making.
- rotundo, on 06/21/2008, -0/+4I believe the soldiers more than earn their pay, but it's still a waste because there is no meaningful product to all their hard work.
What I mean is: we're spending $720mm/day and after we're done we will not have anything worth remotely that much. From a purely business standpoint it's a waste. A bad investment. A huge loss for the country and the world. And that's not even counting the loss of human life, and so many other things.
That money would be better spent on something that increased the global value. All those soldiers could be employed doing things that resulted in meaningful progress for the US and the world. Our entire expenditure to help the Tsunami victims is less than two days in Iraq. Which investment do you think has a more positive effect?
Cheers. - siobhankeogh, on 06/21/2008, -0/+4The people digging you down are clearly not too good at recognising sarcasm.
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