For Washington State:
Taxpayers in Washington have paid $11.9 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
1,882,219 People with Health Care OR
10,569,609 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
220,538 Public Safety Officers OR
191,139 Music and Arts Teachers OR
1,982,446 Scholarships for University Students OR
1,114 New Elementary Schools OR
65,553 Affordable Housing Units OR
4,785,370 Children with Health Care OR
1,337,498 Head Start Places for Children OR
194,030 Elementary School Teachers OR
159,021 Port Container Inspectors

And in 2008:
Taxpayers in Washington will pay $1.5 billion for additional proposed Iraq War spending for FY 2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
239,339 People with Health Care OR
1,344,009 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
28,043 Public Safety Officers OR
24,305 Music and Arts Teachers OR
252,084 Scholarships for University Students OR
142 New Elementary Schools OR
8,336 Affordable Housing Units OR
608,498 Children with Health Care OR
170,073 Head Start Places for Children OR
24,672 Elementary School Teachers OR
20,221 Port Container Inspectors

And lets look at Oregon:
Taxpayers in Oregon have paid $4.2 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
856,047 People with Health Care OR
3,955,275 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
86,757 Public Safety Officers OR
70,956 Music and Arts Teachers OR
720,745 Scholarships for University Students OR
395 New Elementary Schools OR
26,044 Affordable Housing Units OR
1,187,398 Children with Health Care OR
629,803 Head Start Places for Children OR
71,789 Elementary School Teachers OR
72,829 Port Container Inspectors

And for 2008:
Taxpayers in Oregon will pay $535 million for additional proposed Iraq War spending for FY 2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
108,853 People with Health Care OR
502,944 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
11,032 Public Safety Officers OR
9,023 Music and Arts Teachers OR
91,648 Scholarships for University Students OR
50 New Elementary Schools OR
3,312 Affordable Housing Units OR
150,987 Children with Health Care OR
80,084 Head Start Places for Children OR
9,128 Elementary School Teachers OR
9,261 Port Container Inspectors

And for the USA:
Taxpayers in the United States have paid $522.5 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
153,995,332 People with Health Care OR
540,922,142 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
11,285,097 Public Safety Officers OR
8,960,343 Music and Arts Teachers OR
80,782,313 Scholarships for University Students OR
38,313 New Elementary Schools OR
4,064,478 Affordable Housing Units OR
230,292,880 Children with Health Care OR
71,703,033 Head Start Places for Children OR
8,583,162 Elementary School Teachers OR
7,549,214 Port Container Inspectors

And for 2008:
Taxpayers in the United States will pay $66.4 billion for additional proposed Iraq War spending for FY 2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
19,581,722 People with Health Care OR
68,782,521 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
1,434,989 Public Safety Officers OR
1,139,378 Music and Arts Teachers OR
10,272,109 Scholarships for University Students OR
4,872 New Elementary Schools OR
516,830 Affordable Housing Units OR
29,283,558 Children with Health Care OR
9,117,607 Head Start Places for Children OR
1,091,417 Elementary School Teachers OR
959,942 Port Container Inspectors

Geeez....How come Oregon got off so cheap???

Hmmmm.....seems to me that these funds should have been applied to those items listed.

Interesting site:
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

Of course, if we hadn't taken Saddam out, either he or one of his sons, would have sent his armor into both Kuwait and Saudia Arabia and held the worlds oil suply hostage, driving gas prices to over $10.00 per gallon, which would have put hte US and the world into a major depression, rather than a mild recession.

Putting millions out of work, closing plants and schools etc.

What are you smoking today, Saddam didn't have an army left to do anything.

It took what, 30 days at most to topple that government? So why is the US still there and better yet why are US citizens paying for us to rebuild their country from scratch, why are US citizens paying 500 billion to one of the worlds richest oil nations???? Those a-holes should be paying for it not us! Either that or throw up a flag and make it US property! Our oil now!!!!

No army, 3 full corps of Armor in his republican guard, is a pretty big army. Thats not including what his regular army had.

His army was so dumb a girl scout troop could have taken them out. Our troops did it quickly, both times.

Nothing a few hundred sortie's couldn't have taken care of from the air if they started advancing in that direction.

A few hundred sorties, if we had that many aircraft in the area, could take out maybe 500 tanks, 3 corps has 3,000 tanks. And Saddam never showed a lot of concern for his own casualties.

Blah, blah, blah

If, maybe, but...

There is absolutely no way to avoid the fact that we quickly won the war, and proceeded to just hose the occupation / rebuilding part of things.

That's what happened.

Today we are paying out the ass because we didn't do it right when we had the chance. We lied about why we needed to do it, lied about what happened, are lying right now about what it all means, who is involved and what that all means, and a bunch of people are walking around lying mostly because they would rather not feel like such asses for buying into the whole mess.

Never mind, of course, the USA couldn't even charge Saddam with what we toppled him for -- he had a good chance of getting off. Thank God he killed his own people, otherwise Saddam would be a free man today. The US under Bush specialized in botching things and people like NWokie enjoy the hose up their butts and keep trying to get others to enjoy the same.

Oh God, how many more days till the hosing is over? 200-something? I'd like to have rational discussions again about what our President is doing, not lied to by both the President and his/her undereducated supporters

WOW!
Nwokie is smoking some good shit!

"Nwokie is smoking some good shit!"

Yeah, that's another way of putting it.



I don't usually stoop to personal level rebuttals, but geez man, ALL of us are tired of the daily poop from the reality deniers. Bring some subtance to the table man, we're sick and tired of your passing off poop as truth.

And the brain-washing is complete! Resistance is futile, he has been assimilated!

Of course, if we hadn't taken Saddam out, either he or one of his sons, would have sent his armor into both Kuwait and Saudia Arabia and held the worlds oil suply hostage, driving gas prices to over $10.00 per gallon, which would have put hte US and the world into a major depression, rather than a mild recession.

Putting millions out of work, closing plants and schools etc.


That has to be one of the funniest posts I've seen in a long time. Funny peculiar.

Pure unfiltered poop dispensed right before our very eyes.

The Cost Of Policing IRAQ ......

I think an Iraqi cop makes 100 bucks a month

Wow, 500 billion buys alot of cops!

My kid needs 4 grand worth of no insurance dental work, can I roll that in to the next funding bill for the war? aw hell, add 5 grand more for a new roof for the house and I'm set.

Remember the line about Iraq paying for it's own reconstruction with it's own oil(and that was when oil was 1/2 the price it is now)?

What's happening with all that oil these days? Is it being quietly stolen by cronies of you-know-who?

Yeah, don't hear a lot about that these days.

Bet the multi-nationals are getting their chunk --on our dime!

Also that's a significant point of friction. The handling of the Iraqi oil is being turned over to corporations on a long term contract, essentially stripping the Iraqis of that resource, leaving them some sort of profit split.

That split is contentious as the factions are worried about their shares, level of control, who pays for infrastructure, etc...

Where is the oil that Rummy DUH Dummy talked about at the beginning of the war?