PureX said:
I wonder where that half trillion dollars went, exactly. I mean, someone has it. I bet the folks who got that money are voting for Bush, and the republicans. Do you think that spending all that money maybe had something to do with BUYING enough votes and corporate influence to stay in power here in the U.S.?
Does anyone know how much of that half trillion Halliburton has gotten so far? Certinainly they've gotten hundreds of millions of it. And add to the Halliburton-Iraq bill, their rebuilding New Orleans bill, too. I wonder how many hundreds of millions they've gotten from that? It seems like a lot of these American disasters turn out to be a real windfall for Halliburton and other republican supporters.
So I guess it depends on who the "we" is in the question; "what did we get for the half trillion dollars we spent?".
Excellent, excellent points. :yes:
Tie that to other posts here and what we're looking at it is:
A balooning national debt that we will be paying off for generations
3,000 coalition deaths and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.
A greater threat of terrorism against us and increased animosity against us in general.
Less credibility and less resources to respond to other
real threats when they arise.
And Bush's friends have made hundreds of millions of dollars off of this. Even if Iraq was an honest mistake on the administration's part - let's say they really believed that there were weapons of mass destruction aimed at us there - it doesn't take a genius to know that it's unethical for your friends to profit from the decisions that you make as president. They've raped us. There is no other way to put it.
