If the US had never gone into Iraq, would any of the money saved have been spent on common American citizens?

Answer 1

Probably not but a lot of young men would still be alive.
so would a lot of Iraqis, the terrorists that did this was killed in the crash. Husain's terrible regime never killed or torture as many people as the USA has done. So why was he removed?
He didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
India does should we go blow the heck out of them?
If you did the big businesses in America would go broke so that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Answer 2

Well that depends also if one can also have the alternate time line in which President Gore was allowed to serve. If nothing else, think of what energy independence and balanced Fed budgets would have meant for the USA. Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!

Answer 3

Not would none of the money gone to US but you can almost count on the fact that g.w. and his spending crew would have found a way to get it to another foreign country rather than try to do anything about this countries broken infrastructure or any other needs.

Answer 4

Below is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The number is based on Congressional appropriations.
The War in Iraq Costs
$309,621,962,062

See the cost in your community

Or compare to the cost of:

PRE-SCHOOL
Instead, we could have paid for 41,009,546 children to attend a year of Head Start.

KIDS' HEALTH
Instead, we could have insured 185,402,517 children for one year.
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

Instead, we could have provided 15,009,806 students four-year scholarships at public universities.

PUBLIC HOUSING
Instead, we could have built 2,787,858 additional housing units.

PUBLIC EDUCATION
Instead, we could have hired 5,365,795 additional public school teachers for one year.

Do you know what one year of the US military budget is equal to?. It is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.

Answer 5

Not with republicans holding the keys to the coffers, it would only have gone to big business in the form of corporate welfare.

Answer 6

Yes, it would have been spent digging out more common Americans out of rubble blown up by terrorists.

Answer 7

No, it wouldn't have been raised in the first place so there wouldn't have been any money to spend on anyone or anything.

Answer 8

No. We don't live in a welfare nation. That's why we are the richest and most successful nation in the world.
That's why we live better than anyone else.

Answer 9

i doubt it. we'd be in less debt, but i dont' think the money would have gone to state governements, for example.

Answer 10

Nah, they would've pretended as if they had no money at all and then keep it all to themselves. The government is very not reliable these days....