Reply #4: There's a convenient measure for money: One Iraqi Hour. . .

[Journeyman]

One Iraqi Hour equals ~$6,250,000. What a great measure for government expenditures!

"I don't know if I can vote for that water bill -- to clean the arsenic out of our wells would cost about $18 million."

"Well, that's only 3 Iraqi Hours. . . surely we can afford that."


"Wow. . . to keep the libraries open in town will cost about $9 million. Where are we going to get that kind of cash?"

"Whatta you mean? That's less than 1-1/2 Iraqi Hours. All we need do is refrain from blowing up libraries in Iraq for a little longer than it takes to eat lunch and we'll have the cash."


What a remarkably useful tool this will prove to be to throw the war back in the face of those who cannot see other alternatives.