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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jttmab who wrote (217038)2/8/2007 10:13:55 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
That means the Pentagon expects to spend nearly $12 billion a month on the two wars next year - or about $1 billion every two-and-a-half days. By comparison, the State Department has budgeted about $1 billion for migration, refugee, and international disaster and famine assistance for all of 2008.

I wonder what would happen if we got the military totally out of Iraq, replaced them with a few hundred news reporters with no leashes, taxed with the job of uncovering any and all dirt, then told the Iraqis we will send them $12B/month if they deport themselves with model good behavior, otherwise, if the reporters uncover any naughtiness, off goes the spigot?

Seems like a better plan than the current surge to me.
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