since the fatality rate has gone down dramaticly?

Question

is the new tactic of the left to talk about what money has been spent on the war?


the fact is the war has been going on for a bunch of yrs now 4 or 5 and in that time has only spent what welfare and medicare pays out every year

so why cant they just say " yes we are making progress , bless our troops , they are doing a great job"?

together we stand divided we fall and the left is trying to knock those dominos down

the end of the war will be when the ppl of iraq are able to stand on their own as a ppl what cant you about that

btw more of our young die in the major cities of america in 2006 alone more ppl died in detroit baltimore and new orleans due to murder then or soldiers

20 thousand per person over 5 yrs so breakthat dow to 4 thousand a yr and you pay more then that in taxes so grow up

sorry the keyboard is messed up that is break that and down

Answer 1

Well it does seem as if the left has to shift its rhetoric from the casualties but they will be back with that if we have a chopper go down or something as bad.

There is no doubt that they still want to give the enemy a date for when they will have won, even though all indicators are that we will have some type of victory in Iraq.

And they will never understand that a victory means that the elected Iraqi government can stand on its own.

Nor will they admit that our troops will probably be there for years as we were in Germany and Japan.

But let them play their liberal games with our time , money, and troops lives. Hopefully their stupidity will end in 08.

Answer 2

I had to look that up. Yes, entitlements for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and "income security programs" totaled 1.2 trillion dollars just in 2006. And those are just high-level budget items.

The Iraq war has cost something close to 1 trillion.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure welfare and medicare doesn't spend $20,000 per citizen. That's not even per family its per citizen.

The troops aren't getting killed as quickly - good job. There, are you happy?

The left is trying to save the country from making a total asz of itself having invading a country and making life miserable for its citizens in the name of phantom WMD concerns.

Edit: 20k/5 years comes to 4k per person per year, yes but that is about 13K/family per year which is probably close to what people pay in taxes and

a) you said its more than paid for medicare in one year implying that the 20K is more than the 1 year medicare cost not the 5 year cost and

b) not all taxes go to medicare and welfare.

Here is the annual medicare cost is $277 billion per year. The1.9 trillion on Iraq war equates to about 400 billion/year. Federal welfare expenses are about 320B /year. So the war averages about 400B/year, about 2/3 of the cost every year of welfare and medicare together.

Anyway you look at it, its a damn expensive war which would be okay if anyone actually thought it was making the world safer or Iraqi lives better (although why the US would spend 400B a year to make 27 million Iraqis happy is beyond me, that's 15K per Iraqi per year)

Answer 4

If we're doing such a good job, why can't we get a straight answer from the administration about how much longer we have to be there? What exactly, is a win? We can't just keep throwing money and lives at Iraq. We need to come up with a plan that will bring our troops home.

Answer 5

The cost is small change compared to what it would cost if we did not start bringing democracy and hope to the Middle East.
Has anyone done a cost analysis of what it would cost if the terrorists brought the level of violence they would have been capable of to America?

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Answer 6

Tell you what - the day Bush and Cheney fly into Baghdad on a pre-announced visit and walk through town with no more security than they might need in Crawford we'll chat about victory.

Answer 7

iraqis are still dying in droves that would be alive today if not for us and they are being ethnically cleansed to the tune of 20% of their population. but at least no one else is getting their oil

Answer 8

With an outlook like yours I guess there's no need for prudent minds.