a thousand bucks?
War’s estimated cost will be something like $200,000,000,000 by 2005… there are about 200,000,000 adults in the USA…
oh, as a bonus, 15,000 Iraqis will be alive, as will nearly 1000 Americans…
I mean, that $300 check was lame, but a grand…plus the saved lives…
I think the administration’s handling of this whole adventure has been atrocious, but I’m still glad we got rid of that fucker.
I’ll take the thou. I’ve still seen nothing to convince me that Saddam was a danger to the nation that required an invasion.
Iraq was isolated and hated by all of it’s neighbors before the war. I don’t want the grand back, I just wish that it had went towards domestic stuff instead. As it is, education funding is gutted (at least in my state), and there seems that there is little being done towards the development of jobs and technology (was Sematech the swan song of US manufacturing?)
Regarding Iraq, people resent our presence there, and that resentment will foster terrorism. All the same, I don’t think that we can get out at this point without further destabilizing the area. They will hate us if we stay, but the country will turn into another Lebanon if we leave.
I vote for the thousand bucks. I would like also to have the other thirty thousand or so that those tyrants have taken for the “common good”. They’re doing a lousy job anyway. I’ve seen the common, and it’s not very good.
I’ll take the thousand rather than the quagmire we are in. Don’t worry though, we will all be paying for this and the “tax cuts” for the next decade.
Gimme my thousand bucks back. As a matter of fact, I want it to come from those two world class liars in the White House. I’ll take 500 from Bush’s ill gotton profits from insider trading on his Harken Energy stock; and 500 from de facto president Chaney’s hoard which he gained as president of that sterling corporate citizen, Halliburton.
By the way, did you know that one of the early acts of the administration was to welcome back corporations which had committed illegal acts and were therefore banned from doing business with the government?
A thousand bucks. Iraq wasnt’ a threat in the first place. Going there has made the world a more dangerous place and has significantly affected any real “War on Terror” negatively.
I’m with Cornflakes on this one. I don’t personally want the bucks back, I do wish that money had been spent on education and better social services in the USA than all that money spent on Bush’s folly.
I believe the world is a better place because the Husseins are no longer in power. I don’t think it’s a matter of feeling safer as an American. Saddam was a dirtbag, and so were his sons.
That said, I would be willing to pay $1,000 for this entire invasion to have been handled in a better fashion. One that did not result in thousands of lives lost.
But if you people seriously think for one second that Saddam and the Baathists weren’t shitbags of the highest order, you’re wrong.
Everyone agrees that Saddam was (is) a shitbag, Chastain86; some of us just don’t believe he was a shitbag that was a threat to the United States.
Selfish, I know, but if you’re going to adopt a policy like pre-emptive invasion, you better have a selfish-for-national-defenses reason for using it.
But that wasn’t the question. The question was, “Would you rather have Saddam out of power, or $1,000?” My answer to that is “Saddam out of power.”
Threat to the United States is quite beyond the scope of the OP as posted.
Unless you’d like to admit this thread is just another thinly-veiled excuse to Bush-bash.
$1,000 bucks here.
I love how we don’t have money for healthcare or education, yet we can suddenly pull hundreds of billions out of our asses for these insane misadventures.
Humm…
Give me the grand (but I want to see your work on how you got this figure! I don’t want no welfare-gettin’-no-tax-payin’ lay-abouts gettin’ as much as I do!), my share of whatever it costs to fight AIDS in Africa, my share of the NASA budget and principal/interest on whatever was due my old man for footing the bill to toss out Hitler.
:rolleyes:
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. And owes you a fish.
I’ll take the grand. Since there’s no evidence that Saddam won’t be replaced by something worse (e.g. theocracy), I figure there’s a good chance we’ll have spent $200 billion and gained nothing, apart from a much worse international reputation and a generation of Muslims who are far more likely to buy into the idea that the U.S. is a dangerous threat to them, and worth fighting/attacking. This to me seems akin to paying someone to kick you in the nuts.
I’ll take “Saddam out of power” for $1,000, please, Alex.
Oh, and I’d go for the daily double if we can get OBL, too, if that’s not too much of a hijack.
I would rather see Saddam gone, no question. The short term benefit to me of $1000 is nothing compared to the long term benefit to the world of a Saddam-free Iraq.
“The saved lives”? Do you realize that Saddam was torturing and killing people during his regime?
Ha! I thought the answer to the first sentence of the OP was gonna be…
A NEW CAR!
Personally, I’m not sure of my answer to the question, but it is sort of funny how some people think that are parsimonious with using people’s money for certain uses (i.e. if you want welfare just donate to charity, don’t use MY taxes!) but then have no problem using it for other stuff.