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2007-04-17 11:19:06 · 8 answers · asked by WMD LIE p 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
how will this country change when people like "wolf" think the war in Iraq is being fought for our freedom???? amazing!!!
to answer your question, our National Debt has doubled since Bush came into office and we as a nation are going into debt at a rate of 2 billion dollars a day.
some people are so overcome with the propaganda that it doesn't matter at all to them.
2007-04-17 11:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Which way do you want to determine the "cost"?
Money? At least $600 billion. But that won't include the longterm cost of health care (assuming the Republicans agree to live up to their obligations to the veterans), or the long term costs for the military presencce we will almost assuredly maintain in the Middle East.
Opportunity? The array of things the money could have been spent on instead is mind-boggling--schools, rebuilding infrastructure, developing alernative energy, health care, good will with foreign nations.
Lives? My guess would be at least 4000 American lives by the time he leaves office. The number of Iraqi lives is hard to predict, but will be at least in the hundreds of thousands.
Respect? It will take a long time to rebuild tthe respect with which we were once viewed in the world...if we ever can.
Pick your metric! Any way you calculate, though, the cost will be incredibly high...
2007-04-17 18:29:58 · answer #2 · answered by epublius76 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He'll bankrupt the country, because he IS that stupid.
By the way, we had freedom when Clinton was in office, and it didn't cost us to destabilize the Middle East. If freedom means higher gas prices and more foreclosures, America should not be in Iraq.
Period.
2007-04-17 18:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by teddi 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Whatever Freedom is worth.
Won't be a much as Democrat's welfare checks cost us.
2007-04-17 18:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by wolf 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
over $500 Billion
over 3310 American men and women's lives
over 150 British men and women's lives
2007-04-18 03:22:25 · answer #5 · answered by Judge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that is up to the democrats in congress now isn't it? It is Congress that holds the purse strings.
2007-04-17 18:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do you care? You don't pay any taxes out of your welfare check.
2007-04-17 18:41:27 · answer #7 · answered by Toeless_Joe_Jackson 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
$1 trillion (with interest) and several thousand lives.
2007-04-17 18:28:27 · answer #8 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋