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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (173859)8/15/2003 12:27:59 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574196
 

How much of the $4 billion per month do you think is spent on reducing proverty in Iraq and how much do you think is spent maintaining a 150k army which is doing a poor job of maintaining the peace?

Bringing order and some degree of freedom to Iraq is needed if it is going to develop. If we had not taken out Saddam then there would not be the freedom, if we left now there would be no order, so in a sense all of the $bil a month is spent on reducing poverty in Iraq.

In the winter, the sky in Seattle is mostly gray so one could conclude that the sky is really gray and not blue. In the same way, one could conclude that spending money on the military intervention of Iraq is reducing poverty.

However, the reality is that the sky isn't made gray by clouds and poverty is not reduced through military occupation. Both are optical illusions.

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