[econ_grad]

I wasn't mentioning you particularly but since you volunteered so be it. It is foolish to think that putting countries on US welfare will somehow help us to win the war on terrorism. Between the 87 billion last year and 82 billion this year, we could have bought all of Iraq and Afghanistan.

[ohioWfan]

I wasn't mentioning you particularly

Yeah.....right! Follow the posts, econ.

As to 'putting countries on US welfare' you'd have to prove that with actual facts........which you don't have.

[Major_Risktaker]

Between the 87 billion last year and 82 billion this year, we could have bought all of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Iraq's population 25,374,691 (July 2004 est.)

At $169 Billion dollars we could have given every man, women and child ballpark $6.5 million dollars each and bought the country.

A family of 4 would receive $24 million dollars.

A strange way of look at the cash but I think they would have sold out to live anywhere else in the world as millionaire.

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$12 Million for this little jewel and
the local inhabitance got wiped out!

"Let the Land rejoice, for you have bought Louisiana for a Song."
--Gen. Horatio Gates to President Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1803 .

Good deal: Louisiana Territory--828,000 square miles

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The Deal: $200 Billion + and what do you get for you money?

Iraq 271,583 square miles slightly more than twice the size of Idaho

CIA World OIL

If the US didn't import any oil and used are reserves only we would have maybe 9 years of oil at current consumption.