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Iraq costs US $12 Billion per month
news.yahoo.com — Its nice that America has so much money to waste. Good thing we have nothing to spend all that money on like schools, healthcare, food and housing for the needy, college scholarships or just about 12 billion other things.
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- videomeister63, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3This is just f***ing wrong and an outrage. I don't want to hear any more crap from our government about not having enough money for our own healthcare, schools, infrastructure, etc. This really pisses me off.
- cadmiumpaint, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3This should piss off any American when you see how many needy people there are in this country. To burn this much money unnecessarily for so long...its really a criminal act.
- finethug, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3I just have one question for Mr, Bush, did Americans gain anything positive in return from this expensive war?
- gypsi, on 03/10/2008, -1/+2sure - now republicans vote for whomever rush limbaugh tells them to. hows them apples?
- protodon, on 03/10/2008, -0/+2..sand how many lives did it cost?? Sometimes I think it would only take one life to undo this...okay maybe 2.
- theeasyone, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1We probably could've solved world hunger, AIDS, stem cell research, social security, health care crisis and equip every poor family with an iPhone or a laptop with the money lost due to the Iraq war! When will Bush and Cheney be charged for their war crimes? When???
- moracity, on 03/10/2008, -3/+3Actually, the U.S federal government does not have the Constitutional power to spend money on healthcare, schools, food, or housing. However, it DOES have the Constitutional power to spend money on the military. It's one of the few things it spends money on that is not unconstitutional. The federal government exists for little more than the protection of protection of member states and interstate commerce. Hence, the United States of America.
Really, some of you people need to actually learn something about the republic you live in.
Government interference has destroyed education, poisoned our food, driven up healthcare costs, and forced banks to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them.
I'm looking forward to CHANGE that involves getting back the small federal government the founders created...not a monopoly that controls every aspect of my life. I don't want the government paying for my home, providing my healthcare, subsidizing the proliferation processed foods, or educating my child.- videomeister63, on 03/10/2008, -0/+4Be that as it may, it doesn't mean that the federal government should squander hard-earned American money on a irreverent war. If you are still defending Iraq, you are a moron, pure and simple. Just because I can spend money I don't have by charging up my credit card, it doesn't mean I should because it gets me into debt and that is exactly what the federal government did with the Iraq war.
- pleiadianagenda, on 03/10/2008, -0/+2As long as war and chaos are a financial profit to a select few, we will always have perpetual war, while the masses pay for it, in every conceivable way. History shows us elitists will always sell out their own people. They don't care.
If you want to stop war, you have to stop war profiteering. Leadership cannot work without humility and integrity.
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