According to congressional records, the Iraq war is costing the US upwards of *two trillion dollars* & rising every second. Which makes me wonder how much, aside from thousands of lives, is the war costing the Iraqis? How can they afford it? Is their government richer than ours? What are your thoughts on this?
2007-09-27 01:28:13 · 11 answers · asked by The Wiz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Are some of you guys implying that we are paying for their share of the war as well?
2007-09-27 01:41:29 · update #1
do not worry, we have a very good deal there
2007-09-30 21:03:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Greetings. I love this. Not only do we illegally and for no justifyable reason invade their country, kill over a million civilians and utterly destroy their civil government, dissolve their entire infrastructure including the police and security forces, leaving them open to invasion by other jackels from neighboring nations. then continue the genocide against their civilian population and drive a huge number into refugee camps in neighboring countries, arm the religious fanatics so they can join in the eradication of the civilian population of all other branches of the Moslem religion then their own. steal their only natural resource, oil, and sell it on the open market to friends of our leader. then lose the money the oil was sold for, with no record of course. supposed to be 300 million dollars disappearing every week. some say every day actually. we embargo them so they cannot get medical supplies, cannot reopen the hospitals that we destroyed. Is a cholera epidemic starting there in the cities because we destroyed (totally illegally under international law) their water processing plants and gave the contracts to repair it to Halliburton, who has done as close to nothing to do so other then take the money of course. and you want to know how much the people of the invaded and occupied country are paying us for the great service we are performing there of killing them? Can they afford it? of course not, we already stole everything of value in the country. maybe we should punish them for being broke and not being able to pay us more by leaving their country. After all if you can't pay, you can't play, right. Lets show the dead beats and send our troops home to their families and what little they can do with the aftermath of our screwing their minds and health up. Stop helping the Iraqi's. they would enjoy that as our troops would too. Are you mentally ill or do you need intensive rubber room time?
2007-09-27 08:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by Rich M 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
They are an occupied country so in reality there is no cost to them, they only exist as a puppet state under the control of the US and at therefore at our expense from both directions.
The reason for occupying them is that if we can get control of the oil as in the 90's after Gulf war 1 the cost of all the world's marketable oil can be brought down to 5 to $20 dollars a barrel indefinitely making the 'war' which if you remember we had the victory parades for 3 years ago, seem cheap long term.
W. Saddam in power we had control over him and therefore the markets, w. no-one in power we have nothing but an ungovernable State, unfortunately Saddam underestimated the stupidity of spokesman Bush and his adviser's Bosses.
2007-09-27 08:42:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
the British and the Americans are paying for Iraq in more ways than money they are losing valuable lives and time they were out of there.
2007-10-04 16:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cost of the war ? Lot's...killing terrorists and achieving victory with a hung Saddam ...PRICELESS !
2007-10-02 00:13:25 · answer #5 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ummmm, they have one of the largest deposits of OIL in the world.
"Attacks on key economic facilities - especially oil pipelines and infrastructure - have prevented Iraq from reaching projected export volumes, but total government revenues have been higher than anticipated due to high oil prices."
Iraq GDP (purchasing power parity):$87.9 billion (2006 est.)
US GDP (purchasing power parity):$13.06 trillion (2006 est.)
2007-09-27 08:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
But more to the point, where is this money going to, YES the big corporate company's in America who build the weapons for this war and guess what the bush family have shares in these company's.
2007-09-27 08:43:52 · answer #7 · answered by Jewlz 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋
They're not paying for it.......Duh!!!! We had a balanced budget when Clinton was in office.
2007-09-27 08:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Debt.
We'll have to pay it off with interest...woohoo.
2007-09-27 08:34:59 · answer #9 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
u know they cant afford it..that's why us Americans do it all...
lets get bush out..
2007-09-27 08:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by Sandy M 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋