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Originally posted by Centurion
Go to jail..go DIRECTLY to jail..do NOT pass go..do not collect $200 or even 2 cents!
This thread is about how much the war is costing the American taxpayer. You pipe up with "But we've got their oil!" and I asked a simple question: How much money have we made from selling Iraqi oil?
Instead of answering you talk about a "race" (RACE?), join King in fond memories of how we rebuilt Germany & Japan (50 years ago..and they were educated industrialized western countries, not a poor backward country with no infrastructure.)
Then you talked about a CAR LOAN? Geez..is there a nice International Househould Finance were the U.S. can get an interest free loan to pay for all of this?
My point, and this thread's point is that we are throwing money down a rathole in Iraq that we can ill afford to spend right now or continue spending for any indefinite period.
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I am not pro war, but I can certainly see the economics. There are no certainties in life, so who knows what is going to happen and there is no doubt that there is risk with the move into Iraq. Just like there is risk in everything.
But to discount the potential economic impact of the OIL factor is naive. To cry about it like chicken little is sad.
The difference between you and me, is that I don't presume to know the outcome. Nor do I whine about what could go wrong.
You make stupid statements about not having money to pay for the war when our whole economy is based on credit in the first place. You really do not know much about economics, do you??
Good night chicken little.
