Reply #7: Speaking of sponsoring...

[Don1]

I sponsor 3 kids (not in Iraq) from Christian Children's Fund already. I would like to point out to you some calculations that I have done previously on the subject by copying and pasting those calculations here.

"...it is highly irresponsible for the US to use its monetary resources to line corporate pockets (like Halliburton, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, ESSI etc) in this war while meanwhile killing 100,000 civilians, including 50,000 children and hiding all this information from the American people whose interests are allegedly being represented. The irresponsibility is not only extreme violence and carnage against innocents, but it is a 3000-fold violence against their spirits. Let me explain. We have used now approximately $170 billion in the Iraqi war and this has been used over a 2-year period. On the other hand, it costs $288.00 to sponsor 1 child through the Christian Children's Fund for one year. Multiply by that by two. It costs $576.00 over a two year period to sponsor 1 child. Therefore, if we used the war money to sponsor children (instead of killing them for corporate profit), then we could have sponsored $170 billion/$576 = 295 million kids. Since as I said before, the population of Iraq is only 25 million, we are talking about nearly 12 Iraqs. We could have saved 12 Iraqs in that time period! Furthermore, we could have saved 295 million/100,000 = 2,950 times as many people as were killed. Yes, that is correct. The U.S. killed an outrageous number of people, 100,000 civilians. But what is more outrageous and what really condemns the whole effort is that we could have saved 3 thousand times that many people."