On CNN: (((ONE TRILLION DOLLARS))) - The new cost of the Iraq war. I'm gonna be sick.

[BigBearJohn]

ONE THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS


Just imagine the good we could have
done in THIS country with that money.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Lars39]

1. Largest smash and grab in history.

:(

[wicket]

27. Mission accomplished

:cry:

[depakid]

2. Double that would probably be more accurate

See. e.g.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1681119,00.html

[Gregorian]

33. I also saw the 2 trillion figure quoted from another source.

I don't remember where. On Charlie Rose perhaps?

I think the long term medical, AND reparations which aren't even included in these figures, might be even higher.

[proud patriot]

3. what's 1 trillion divided by 300 million ?

x(

[gilpo]

28. $3,333.33 each

That's $13,333.33 for my family's share

[spanone]

4. .....and much of it disappeared. amazing ain't it.

:shrug:

[Old and In the Way]

5. What could $1 Trillion have bought us in renewable/alternative energy?

Never mind the jobs that this investment would have stimulated here. Never mind the loss of American lives and casulaties. Nevermind the 100's of thousands of Iraqi's killed and the millions displaced. Nevermind the loss of our international reputation.

When does this administration's actions to wreck our economy constitute treason?

And these Republicans are fighting over a few billion for our kids healthcare....what a sad bunch of people.

[OzarkDem]

25. My thoughts too

there could have been so much we could do with this money to make us less dependent on fossil fuels.

:banghead:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

35. Yeah *frown*. What a buncha' effed up thugs!!!

:mad:

[BOSSHOG]

6. And yet the family values republicans tell us child care is too expensive

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. And SCHIP is unnecessary socialized medicine

[PA Democrat]

24. And Social Security will be bankrupt.

[BeHereNow]

7. Imagine all you want, but they don't care about this country or the people in it.

Katrina isn't just for Louisiana, it is the plan for Americans everywhere.
BHN

[JacquesMolay]

9. Maybe we should name some things that could have been done...

... like investing in new energy projects, or seeing to it that everyone has health care.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. please

it'll be twice that much by the time the war ends in 30 years.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. That's 1. So where'd the OTHER TWO TRILLION added to the national debt go? nt

[PA Democrat]

26. Bush's tax cuts have contributed to the national debt. I don't have numbers, but it a significant

amount.

[Uben]

12. Uh, excuse me!

It's a trillion dollars, you can't afford to be sick. Suck it up and get back to work. Someone has to pay for Bush's war!

{Damn, that would be funny were it not true!)

[Capn Sunshine]

13. Just don't tell me we can't fix anything we want in this country

because if we survive TWELVE FUCKING BILLION A MONTH on war , we can certainly do the same with every goddam problem this country faces.

Hey! Here's an idea! Lets only spend six billion in September- I'm sure they'll get by- and start a NATIONAL INCUBATOR FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BUSINESSES.

Damn, the depths these people have gone to to rip off the American people.

[Jacobin]

14. Its a classic con game

Make someone spend money on something stupid, then keep getting more money from the victim, telling them if they don't they'll waste what they've already spent

[gatorboy]

15. And a single dime better not go to healthcare for kids.

Or the Republicans are gonna get so maaaad!

[butterfly77]

22. It went to welfare for the corporations...

[Tactical Progressive]

16. Republicans are leaving the bill to Democrats

so they can paint us as the tax-raisers again.

Three trillion dollars in theft from the treasury (euphemistically called "tax cuts") for the wealthy.
Another trillion in a war.
And who knows how many more trillions in ground-level graft and corruption by the right.

Nearly a decade of evil and anti-American ugliness from the right, and probably six trillion dollars just gone.
Not to mention the lives and civil liberties lost, and our very electoral democracy corrupted.
And a sleazy, dishonest right-wing supreme court to wreak havok for perhaps another decade more.

Will that horrendous price ever turn out to be worth it just so that:
- a few million 'Independents' and moderates from the mindless middle get to see what Republicans are really like?
- Democrats finally understand how right-wing America's 'mainstream' journalism really is?

I honestly don't think so. But thanks DHLs.

What I've learned from the past decade is just what a bunch of fucking monsters make up much of my country.

[Bryn]

41. Bush was on TV (faux news) the other day

Screeching about how Democrats were going to raise high taxes. Dumb S.O.B.

[yy4me]

17. I must get my priorities in order. I'm still trying to get my roof

fixed after the April storm we had and my insurance company had been a real pain in the backside about a $5000 job. Geeze, I'm in the wrong universe.

[benld74]

18. THIS adminstration would NEVER have spent that kinda money on THIS COUNTRY!

[Quantess]

20. Nope.

:mad:

[Nimrod2005]

30. The mother fucker war president is going to veto health insurance cost for poor children!!!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

36. BUT, they repeat over and over how "we" are sooo important: our protection and quality of life.

Liars, LIars, LIARS!!!!

ALL we are to them is prey. They do NOT care for/about us,...they eat us, alive.

[Lisa]

19. gee, I wonder where all that money is going?

The White House goes on about "supporting the troops" whenever the accounting is questioned ... but I know there are soldiers who are getting something like $1400 per month (if that) -- so they aren't seeing much of it.

I feel sick too, BigBearJohn. Bush and his cronies basically stole that money from the American people. Someone here on DU a while back did some calculations about how big a stack of bills that would amount to -- how many shrink-wrapped cargo pallets, etc. -- but I'm too depressed to search for the reference.

[trashcanistanista]

21. It certainly explains why the SCHIP

debate has gone on for two days. It should be a no-brainer.

[lovuian]

23. Yes One trillion to LOSe the War and pay higher Gas prices

yes thanks Congress thanks Bush for making yourselves Millionaires on our children's blood

[Nimrod2005]

29. K

[Nimrod2005]

31. And it may cost another $1 trillion to bring them all home!!!

[Alpharetta]

32. Freedom aint cheap!

Just too bad I can't trust this government to shop around a bit...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

34. Why is this not Treason? n/t

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

37. 'Cause the Thugs-in-charge SAY it ain't (I believe this IS treason against the USA -

- that being you and me and the rest of the American people, THUGS excluded)!!!!

:mad:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

38. And their saying it isn't

Is all the more reason it is.

Everything else they've said in the last 6 years has been a lie.

[Jade Fox]

39. As I was driving home from work.....

listening to the news story about that bridge in Minneapolis, I was thinking of all the ways that trillions dollars could be used right here in the USA. Like to shore up our infrastructure so people don't die on collapsing bridges.

Why does idiocy seem to rule our land????

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

40. "idiocy" doesn't rule,...profit-sucking predators do,...

truth is as it is

[Bryn]

42. Like what Bill Maher said: Bush throws you shit and then offers protection from flies

[Hideboh]

43. I heard that Iraq potentially has several trillion dollars worth of oil and natural gas.

Those natural resources will eventually cover all the costs.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

44. I've been playing this song a lot...

Anti-Flag. Play it loud.

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS

One trillion dollars could buy a lot of bling
One trillion dollars could buy most anything
One trillion dollars buying bullets, buying guns
One trillion dollars in the hands of killers, thugs

F**k the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
F**k the world,
F**k 'em all

One trillion dollars to Africa, Iraq
One trillion dollars and it's never coming back
One trillion dollars could buy some bad-ass drugs
One trillion dollars makes me wanna kill myself

F**k the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
F**k the world,
F**k 'em all

Until the sun burns from the sky
Until the sun burns so bright this world is no more
Sun burns from the sky...
And all the people are just dust on the ground

One trillion dollars could buy a heart, a soul
One trillion dollars buying nations - all the world
One trillion dollars could make the fat lady sing
One trillion dollars, what a bullshit useless thing

F**k the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
F**k the world, a lot of people gotta die tonight
Shit loads of money spent will show us wrong from right
F**k the world
F**k 'em all

[merh]

45. Here is a site that does give the numbers

what we could have done with the money.

The War In Iraq Costs
$448,383,657,869

Instead, we could have built
4,037,273
additional housing units.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html

As a Katrina survivor, the housing units seems to hit home. :(

[lazyriver]

46. And the chimp says he'll veto the SCHIP bill

because "it's too expensive". He should burn in hell just for that remark alone.