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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (736923)	4/16/2006 5:25:23 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

can you break down that 6 million a month ?

To: puborectalis who wrote (736923)	4/16/2006 7:48:51 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

How can you put a price on peace? This is the best investment in our future, nothing even comes close... You may have seen this list before, but to answer your question, if only in part: We have not had another attack on our shores since we've taken the fight to them. 47 countries have now re-established their embassies in Iraq. The Iraqi government now employs 1.2 million Iraqi people. 3100 schools have already been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq. Iraq's higher educational structure now consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers. 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2004 for the re-established Fulbright program. The Iraqi Navy is fully operational. They have 5 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment. Iraq's Air Force already consists of three operation squadrons, 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 bell jet rangers. Iraq now has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion. The Iraqi Police Service currently has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers. There are now 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks. There are now more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq. They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities. 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have already received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations. 4.3 million Iraqi children were already enrolled in primary school by mid October There are now 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%. Iraq now has an independent media that consist of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations. The BAGHDAD STOCK EXCHANGE opened in June of 2004. This list is much, much longer, but you get the idea... GZ

To: puborectalis who wrote (736923)	4/16/2006 8:06:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Would you not fight Hitler? "A rough consensus has been reached on the total cost of the war. The human cost is estimated at 55 million dead—25 million in the military and 30 million civilians. The amount of money spent has been estimated at more than $1 trillion, which makes World War II more expensive than all other wars combined." Now infl;ation has to be accounted for. data.bls.gov $1T in 1945 is equivalent to $110T NOW. How's your goose step? "Taken together, it is quite possible that the United States will ultimately spend more on U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan than it did on the Korean War ($455 billion) or the Vietnam War ($650 billion)," Kosiak wrote. $455B in 1952 is equivalent to $3.412T NOW $650B in 1970 is equivalent to $3.329T NOW. (Using 1970 as about the middle of that war.) But a study by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, war critic, and former Clinton administration official, estimated the total cost of the war in the range of $750 billion to $1.2 trillion. So there is NO COMPARISON between the cost of this war and the one your idiot biased fool compares it to.