$500 billion gone on the war of error. What do you think this money should have been used for?

Question

SomeDude; The war of error was our invasion of Iraq to rid Saddam of WMD - see the error? The war on terror was completely different. Now our invasion and occupation has brought terrorists to Iraq. Kuwait, Afghanistan, Al qaeda, etc all deserve military response IMO.

Answer 1

I'm listening to Mike Gravel on my ipod (vote for Mike Gravel!) and he said instead of spending money for this terrible war on terror:

1. 21 million Americans could have a four year scholarship for college.

2. 7.6 million teachers could have been hired last year.

3. 4 million housing units available and a good portion could go to Katrina residents.

I agree with him that our money could have went to this and not to the war in Iraq.

Answer 2

Well, instead of focusing on destroying human lives, how about developing ways to help humans that are less fortunate than Americans.

One way would be to have taken that 500 billion and irrigated the whole very dry western USA, from our plentiful water supplies in the upper north central part of the USA. {Minnesota & eastward}

Impossible? I don't think so California already has over 600 miles of irrigation in use.

With the west irrigated the food/tree/ethanol/ products produced would create thousands of jobs and could once again make the USA a top exporting country.

Did you know the reason Japan started it's war expansion movement in the 1930's was because they didn't have enough productive land space left to feed it's increasing population.
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Answer 3

The War of Error? Confoundit! I wanted that money to go to the War on Terror!

How quickly the World forgets. The War terror is the only appropriate response to the atrocity of 9/11, and should and will continue until terror is stomped out of this world (yes, endlessly if need be). Everyone likes to complain that we (Americans) have lost 3,000+ Soldiers in Iraq. We lost 3,000+ people in a single morning in 2001. As an American Soldier myself, I am proud to be a part of GWoT.

Non-Americans who don't understand what it waslike to watch that happen to our cities that day: Fine criticize our military all you like. But next time a Hussein invades a Kuwait, a Hitler a Poland, a Kim a South Korea - don't look to us. Next time a tsunami hits your country, or an earthquake don't ask us for humanitarian aid. You wanna be partners, great lets do it. You don't - you need us a lot more than we need you.

Answer 4

Well I think we were right in going into Afganistan and hunting down those retards that planned that 9/11 attack. They needed to die...just my opinion. But going into Iraq and trying to turn those boobs into a self governing country is absurd. They still live in tribal communities for god's sake!! They can't even get along with one another! Our great leadership screwed the pooch on that one. We should have got some good intel. and just either bombed the he** out of where saddam was at or got people to assasinate him. I'm sure we could have used maybe some of that 500 billion to better our country.....but hind site is 20/20 for our intellegent leaders

Answer 5

Well, if a tiny factions of this tremendous amount of money had been spent counting ALL the votes across the State of Florida in 2000, the rest of the above-named amount could have been spent on any number of worthwhile projects, last of which would have been invading a sovereign country and starting a civil war there.

Answer 6

We could have built a center for homeless people in every major city in the country, resurfaced welfare to not be abused and to actually help, get rid of drugs in this country, help every college bound kid that can't afford to go to college to go, put together a program for all obese people to lose weight for free, etc).

About 1000 things could have been done that would have made a difference.

Answer 7

Create a web site people could go to and spend hours of their time neglecting work, housework, children just to answer questions they have no knowledge of, to ask questions that have been asked hundreds of times before, but figuring because it's you, you'll get a better response. Damn that was a long sentence! And with the rest of the $499 billion, I would build a friggin wall around this country, mine it, station machine gun turrets, guard dogs, claymores, concertina wire along the entire land border. And keep illegal immigrants out, while at the same time streamlining the process to allow Legal immigrants access to America.

Answer 8

I think we should close schools and open up some after school activity centers. All schools should close at noon

There should only be 3 classes a day, so kids learn REALLY well the things that REALLY matter, and save all these "extra cariculars" for the NEW after school activity centers, as oppossed to just rebuilding new schools all the time.

All we need are large schools, and shorter hours.
Then, ship them to activity centers if they need some outside arts and crafts and basket weaving and call it a day at around1:00

We would still have things like football teams - it just wouldn't be a part of the school - instead of the High school football team, it would be whatever whatever center.

Example: The yellowjackets
Representing: Lakeside activity center

Example: The yellowjacket cheerleaders
Representing: Lakeside activity center

Answer 9

1. The national debt.
2. Federal grants that help victims of crime and poverty.
3. That lousy "Every Child Left Behind" educational system that punishes schools for being poor, without providing the funding necessary to help these schools improve.
4. Perhaps the REAL war on terror... which certainly wasn't in Iraq until we brought it there.

Answer 10

War of error? Maybe you are on to something here as there is plenty of error.