The War Will Pay for Itself

     The war will pay for itself, or so we were told... Iraq would pay for its own rebuilding with its own revenues.

     We now know that isn't true, but what could we buy with what we're spending?

     According to the American Friends Service Committee:

• homes for almost 6,500 families
• health care for 423,529 children, or
  
• renewable electricity equipment for 1.27 million homes

     That would be a lot of good had we not been in this war, but those numbers are not for the whole war, nor even since "Mission Accomplished", nor since the surge.

     Those numbers are per day.

     The numbers are based on what we're spending plus what we will spend to replace equipment and provide care for wounded veterans. For more information, see the Washington Post article.

     We know how much suffering this war is causing. Now we know how much suffering we could have alleviated with the same money.