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What Could $456 Billion Have Bought Us Instead?
Posted May 15th 2007 1:29AM by Cenk Uygur
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16. I enjoye your comments, please keep all of us inform.
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william at 10:57PM on May 15th 2007
17. 1st things 1st. Regarding the energy crisis. In Japan, there exist Hibryd/Electric cars which can readily run on ethanol and can drive 100 miles/gallon. And you know What!? This cars are made by Toyota/Lexus Inc., This cars have existed since about 1997. And you know what...Cr@k head Bob A.K.A. BUSH Will NEVER Let this cars in...Not until we are so in debt in this Full Hearted WAR in Iraq that we can no longer see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Leo at 11:10AM on May 15th 2007
18. Actually 456 billion is not much when you consider that the total US budget for 2007 is 2.8 trillion. In other words all the money spent on Iraq over the years would only fund the government for about two months.
Greg at 11:13AM on May 15th 2007
19. Actually 456 billion is not much when you consider that the total US budget for 2007 is 2.8 trillion. In other words all the money spent on Iraq over the years would only fund the government for about two months.
Greg at 11:11AM on May 15th 2007
20. Actually 456 billion is not much when you consider that the total US budget for 2007 is 2.8 trillion. In other words all the money spent on Iraq over the years would only fund the government for about two months.
Greg at 11:12AM on May 15th 2007
21. i know we lose people in all wars and thats not good but people chose to go to the service they are not drafted so you can say the choice was there own
bsdc at 11:16AM on May 15th 2007
22. 1st things 1st. Regarding the energy crisis. In Japan, there exist Hibryd/Electric cars which can readily run on ethanol and can drive 100 miles/gallon. And you know What!? This cars are made by Toyota/Lexus Inc., This cars have existed since about 1997. And you know what...Cr@#k head Bob A.K.A. BUSH Will NEVER Let this cars in...Not until we are so in debt in this Full Hearted WAR in Iraq that we can no longer see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am proud to say that I didn’t vote for him 1st or second time, but me voting for the other guy didn’t work since in my opinion, THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED. So, I Say, This Must End. I Call All of You out there to Send Your petitions to your local Senators to have BUSH Impeached!
lmosenko at 11:40AM on May 15th 2007
23. 1st things 1st. Regarding the energy crisis. In Japan, there exist Hibryd/Electric cars which can readily run on ethanol and can drive 100 miles/gallon. And you know What!? This cars are made by Toyota/Lexus Inc., This cars have existed since about 1997. And you know what...Cr@#k head Bob A.K.A. BUSH Will NEVER Let this cars in...Not until we are so in debt in this Full Hearted WAR in Iraq that we can no longer see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am proud to say that I didn’t vote for him 1st or second time, but me voting for the other guy didn’t work since in my opinion, THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED. So, I Say, This Must End. I Call All of You out there to Send Your petitions to your local Senators to have BUSH Impeached!
lmosenko at 11:34AM on May 15th 2007
24. It really upsets me to think that a third world country like Brazil can become oil independant, but we can't. Sugar cane is Brazil's plant of choice where corn is ours. But consider Hawii just for example, where sugar cane is grown in abundance and it's used to power their utility plants. Gas there is still up over $4 a gallon because they say that they have to import all of their fuel from the main land. WHY?? Is our government telling us that Brazil can build ethanol refineries to convert sugar cane into ethanol, but it can't be done in Hawaii? Lets face it, our government really isn't intrested in lowering the cost of fuel because of the huge tax revenue that being generated from the high cost of gas.
Dave Rissmiller at 11:41AM on May 15th 2007
25. Think about what could have been bought with the more than $546 Billions costs of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attack. Lives of U.S. citizens, buildings, National counterterrorist measures, fear of another attack, U.S. political division.
What are you going to spend the money on? Political lobbyst will tell you. Remember Abramoff sucker the poor people into gambling casinos.
Alan Klaus at 11:44AM on May 15th 2007
26. 456 Billion dollars could bought us over 3000 American lives that lost in this sensless war. If we did not spend the money on this nonsense war, we would not have lost all these lives not counting the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. What a shame, if a CEO of company make a mistake that cost a company millions, he/she will be fired. This president cost this country billions and no one have courage to even ask to fire him!
Nader at 5:08PM on May 15th 2007
27. How Much did it cost the US as a result of the world Trade Center disaster? Clean up, rebuilding, payments to relatives of deceased, new security programs implemented?
Rick at 11:47AM on May 15th 2007
28. I'm sorry Dan (comment #9), I must be an ignorrant liberal, I learned so much from your tirade. I guess its time I start watching FAUX News to get all the real facts. My bad, I should have known better. I just don't understand why you feel the need to verbally abuse others about their thoughts on this. But I guess that's the way you learn to 'discuss' issues with others from your right wing buddy Bill O'Reilly. Scream and yell to get your point across, and end up sounding like the real idiot. But I must say that it is people like you that are the real threat to this country, with your close minded, biased views. It's just too bad you don't see all the good that this money could have accomplished.
Chefe at 11:56AM on May 15th 2007
29. We spend 7 times that each year on the liberal entitlement programs. Seven times the total cost of Iraq, our War on terror, on liberal give-a-way programs that have a 40 year failed record. In the mean time, we have had no attacks in 5 years, what is that worth?
david at 11:59AM on May 15th 2007
30. See the more than $456 Billion cost of 9/11 Isalmic terrorist attack. What could have been done with that money and the destruction it caused to U.S.A. way of life.
If you do not see some relationship to the cost of Iraq, you are more dense in the head than this What Could Have Bought Us Instead. Ask U.S. Congress lobbysts.
Alan Klaus at 10:12AM on May 16th 2007