According to this website, the war in Iraq has cost almost 414 billion dollars up until now.
Are we, after spending this money, any safer from Isalmic fundamentalist terrorism?
If you want to say the Iraqi people are better off without Saddam, OK.
But are we (I mean Americans, citizens of these United States - and it is, after all, about us) any safer?
We have spent money on security within the United States, and we haven't had any attacks, so you can presume that money is being spent reasonably well (although I heard the other day that a stewardess took a handgun on board an airplane without any problems).
But has the money we have spent in Iraq made us any safer?
Is the worldwide threat of terrorism, and the threat to our society, any less?
Are the terrorists now less capable of succesfully attacking us?
Do fewer terrorists want to attack us?
All the Bush government can say is, that if Congress sets a date for withdrawal, the terrorists will have won.
I don't hear them showing us how we are winning now, or will win if we keep spending this money.
The message is what will happen if we don't.
I want to know what will happen if we do.
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the longer they stay there the more oil they can get (plus othe things),.and its the u.s tax money 414 billion = hey it has to be spent in order to back pocketed,. and all the billion dollar contracts for buildings etc etc wouldnt of been up for grabs if there was no war,.
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