will we see a return on the 422+ trillion $$$ spent in iraq in our lifetimes?

Question

or is it a black hole that will suck usa dry? what price in dollars and lives are you willing to sacrifice to continue an unwinnable war?

sorry.. thats billion not trillion - i cant count..

the current nat'l debt is $8 trillion though

Answer 1

We'll see a return alright, but it won't be pretty! George W. Bush's insane, unconstitutional, and illegal 'war' will result in the following circumstances:
1. Shortly after Bush leaves office, this country will experience the worst economic depression in its history (much worse than 1929), all due to Bush's reckless economic policies;
2. Within a generation or two, China will become the world's next super power after revoking America's 'credit card' (we are now China's biggest debtor, thanks to the Bush family's close ties to the Chinese). Since we won't be able to finance a military, China will simply come over here and take whatever it wants: our real estate; property; military hardware; banks; natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas, water, minerals and food; weapons of mass destruction; - even our women if there's a demand for western women in the global sex slave trade;
3. The United States will become a third-world country, similar to the Dominican Republic or Haiti with a handful of the very, very rich - and the rest of us, the very, very poor;
4. The United States will never regain its reputation as a world leader or global peacekeeper;
5. Because of the Bush administration's failed environmental record, the United States will experience devastating coastal floods caused by the effects of global warming;
6. Due to the Bush administration's 'secret' CIA prisons and the torture and abuse of detainees in direct violation of the rules of the Geneva Convention, America will never be trusted again in the eyes of the global community;
7. Our great-grandchildren will still be paying off the multi-trillion-dollar debt the Bush 'war' folly has created, and those children will not live the kind of lifestyle most Americans are fortunate enough to live today;
8. Oil companies will continue to suck every drop of OIL from Iraq's sands and reap huge profits (if the U.S. truly wants to bring democracy to Iraq and leave, WHY are we building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bushites?);
9. Large corporations such as Hallburton, the Carlyle Group, Sikorsky, Lockheed-Martin and McDonnell-Douglass will continue to enjoy billions of dollars in WAR PROFITEERING;
10. There will be no money available for rebuilding America's infrastructure, constructing new schools, or protecting and preserving the delicate ecological balance between man, plants and animals so necessary to our coexistence and survival on this planet.
Yeah...we'll see a return - but it won't be a pretty one! -RKO- 05/02/07

Answer 2

nicely, surely, the US did not spend a lot on the Iraq conflict themselves. The Bush administration purely saved borrowing money from China & Japan to fund their conflict. Billions of bucks an afternoon. it really is why you've a 9 trillion dollar debt.

Answer 3

What welfare program do you want that $422 trill. to go into, you wouldn't see it there either-of course you wouldn't know about it too. Out of sight, out of mind. Futhermore, there's been how many attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11? Zero. I would say that's pretty good odds in this "unwinable war". So long as our troups are over there, we don't have to fight over here..Provided you don't live in a crappy liberal state that's banned firearms, in which case-your leaders have already shown you how to surrender.

Answer 4

422 billion dollars and for what?

Answer 5

we already are seeing the return, in higher oil prices.