Will we ever see the billions spent on Iraq pay off?

Question

or is it good money down the drain?

Answer 1

We will never see where the money has been spent, because
the Department of Defense and Homeland Security have not past their audits. They were given "Disclaimers" cause their books were so badly managed!
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09282007/watch2.html
I bet our decider is quite happy in the direction of this war!

Answer 2

Yes, it will pay off, but if we see it, it's hard to say, since usually in history, the actual people fighting in wars, any war, never see the popular results of taking that action. Abraham Lincoln was unpopular during the Civil War, for example, but we wouldn't have changed the results of it now, would we?

Answer 3

It is good money down the drain, Halliburton stocks keep rising, Hunt Oil and Black Water are doing great.

Cheney has made 55 million at least in the last 7 years and Bush and his saudi friends are also doing very well with oil prices off the charts.

Life is peachy.

Answer 4

We won't, but the war profiteers, and anti-American neocons already are, as our infrastructure crumbles under Bush budget cuts to spend money on Iraq. The shockwaves of Bush's spending will be felt for decades to come.

Answer 5

The billions of that we spent on Iraq were for oil and globalization, so no.

Answer 6

As a friend above is saying, the Dumbya Coup is doing fine, but as for the American people as a whole, you could wait until the sun consumes the earth after swelling to a red giant for that to happen. Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!

Answer 7

From a purely financial point of view, it would be cheaper to just not fight the war on terrorism and let the terrorists attack. The benefit of this money is about making us FEEL safer since we're keeping the terrorists busy far from our homeland.

Answer 8

i think we are up to $450 billion on iraq alone. not sure of that though.

i think petraeus said something like $12 billion a month.

Answer 9

i'm thinking no.
Silly govt.
And congress is supposed to declare war, not the president. thats what the constitution says.
Peace all the way.

k, ill stop pretending to know much about politics now. But seriously, what a bad idea (the war). Even funnier, the war was never actually "declared" it just kind of happened. Like vietnam.

Answer 10

Well if you are a republican, you dont look at it as money and lives down the drain. You look at it as higher profits for war-industry corporations like Haliburton.