Just to put us into a position where we will have to spend 350 billion more over the next few years. And why? To kill a cruel dictator? Well therer are plenty more where he came from. How much more iwould we have been better off if we had opted for the scholarships.
2007-01-18 17:16:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
rPH makes sense , Spend some on building affordable housing, some on making sure everyone has access to medical care, and the largest chunk on scholarships, after all, it's the young who will be paying this debt, for generations to come. As for the troops money being spent by their families in the US, if they were home, furthering their education, and doing what the National Guard is supposed to do, their small share of that money would be spent in the US. Haliburton, Cheney, the munition manufacturers, and the rest of the "carpet beggars" wouldn't be the only ones that could afford to send their children to University.
If Bush and the neo-cons would try diplomacy, instead of supporting dictators when convenient, and then invading their country to secure the oil reserves, who knows, the Twin towers would probably still be there, as their destruction would not have been necessary to get the nation behind the idea of invading Iraq & Afghanistan. (The other 3000)
2007-01-18 23:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been angry over Iraq for some time, but I have been troubled by the added complication of what would come with a precipitous withdrawal. We have a tiger by the tail, and we need to get a muzzle on it before we let go, or it will turn and eat us alive. It was the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time. We should have completed the job in Afghanistan before we took on the "Saddam problem." However, it is what it is. We can NOT just pull out, but it hurts like hell to watch the continued destruction and the pain our young men and women are dealing with as they lose friends or their independence to traumatic injuries. It hurts to try to comfort the neighbor whose son was killed. I do not want our brave soldiers to continue to die. I want an exit strategy, not "throw good money after bad" continuation of the existing "strategy." We will have to continue with the 12.5 billion dollars per month for a while, but a PLAN to reduce that amount and the accompanying destruction is essential and fundamental to cleaning up the mess we are currently in.
2016-05-24 05:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if a full ride for four years costs $72,000, then 4 or 5 million scholarships would be possible.
But the money shouldn't be focused on just 18-22 year olds. We should all get some of the money !
2007-01-18 17:42:27 · answer #3 · answered by PH 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact is that thousands of government contractor's sons and daughters are being given free college educations with the money.
Do you think the money is being spent IN Iraq? No, most of it is spent right here in the USA. Where do you think the troops are spending their money? They send it home to their families.
The U.S. economy is doing well BECAUSE of the war, not in spite of it.
2007-01-18 17:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by Ed F 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There could be plenty of scholarships if most of the taxes are not spent on arms, defense and development of nuclear weapons.
2007-01-18 17:20:21 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am so sick of hearing people complain about all the money we have spent going to Iraq and how they hate Bush... my God, get over it. 9 out of 10 troops want to be there and believe they are there for a reason.
2007-01-18 17:25:29 · answer #6 · answered by amyleeroxs 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How many diseases could we have cured? Rebuilt the gulf coast? Saved the family farms? Hell, we could have payed off my student loans!
2007-01-18 17:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋