How much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?

Are you kidding us with this question? Do you realize, because there is no secure banking in Iraq, that wooden pallets piled 4 feet high with bundles of $100 bills were routinely shipped to Iraq? Pallet upon pallet, guarded and delivered by contractors. If all that money was distributed to the financially-challenged citizens of amurica most would now have a home and could have bought a new car and started college funds for their kids. Okay, a slight exaggeration (maybe) but food would be on every table..........cheersHow much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?We have spent Billions in Iraq. And yes it would have helped us in our economy.



The downside to this is that a dictator (Hussein) would still be in control of Iraq wiping his feet on the American flag and clapping when terrorist flew suicide planes into buildings taking American lives. The Terrorist organizations would still be as strong as ever and would be growing. Not hiding in holes like they are now.How much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?
What we spent in Iraq for money is immaterial because it was all borrowed cash. Bush didn't run it out of the military budget, he went to Congress twice a year for 'emergency' funds to keep the war going. so no, it couldn't have helped except that not spending it would have meant a lower deficit.How much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?Probably around $635 Billion total, so far..... [compare that to the the "Stimulus Package".. a product of the same people who brought us AFFORDABLE HOUSING!*]



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And much of that money DID help the economy.

Military pay and benefits; purchases of supplies; weapons manufacture; contractor services ... etc.How much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?
better to use it fighting terrorists who wish us harm, rater than yet another failed government program, that wast,s more than it accomplishes.How much money have we spent in Iraq, and would that money have helped us in our current financial crisis?BULLSHIT