Give me a number in US dollars, please. If you're gonna answer: "a lot", or "many innocent lives", then I prefer not to have your answer. I want to know the exact amount in billions of dollars. \n in case the US only wanted to get oil from Iraq, how long would it take to pay off?
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I dont know the exact amount spent on each. But I can tell you that the national debt is now around $8,000,000,000,000 and that every day the US government spends roughly one billion dollars on the military alone. By the way, all this money, the government is borrowing it from China. Sorry I cant help you anymore than that.\n\n\npeace
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I'd estimate somewhere in the 40,000-50,000 range of Iraqi casualties. Of course, it could be much more, no one knows.
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I just got back from IRAQ so i hear you loud and clear.Although a $2000.00 generator will not run the equipment needed to to do the job required. The generator in my living area when i was there cost over one million dollars.\n     It is my belief that IRAQ should be one of the richest countries just like KUWAIT,QATAR and the other middle eastern countries.It is a shame the children died the way they did.We the AMERICANS have done so much to help the IRAQI people and so much more needs to be done.Having been there you know why things are the way they are and they are not going to change any faster.
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No, it was/is not!! \n$2,000,000,000,000.00 ....  count it 2 trillion!! 2 thousand billion dollars...\nfor GW to put a hit on the man who tried but failed to put a hit on his father .... \nSomehow,  2 trillion dollars for a family vendetta that also cost the lives thousands of US military men and women and maimed and ruined many thousands more, as well as causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of mostly civilian Iraqi women, children and men ... and destabilizing the entire Middle East seems a bit steep of a price to pay.  After all, they knew long before the start that there were no WMD's or programs to develop them.. So ... NO NO NO .. the bush family had no right to force the taxpayers of the US to pay for their mafia style vendetta....
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I don't really understand your question, but I think you are talking about our war on terror, am I right? Well, we recieved a serious attack which killed thousands of people, more would have died if the other two planes had hit their targets. If a country, or organization, does not want the world's most powerful nation to come breaking down their door, they shouldn't make such a blatant declaration of war. (If they didn't want war, why would they hijack several planes and try to crash them into very important buildings filled with thousands of people?) Did we start fighting this war before or after their act of aggression? After. How many countries are we allied with? How many times have we entered into a war not our own to protect those allies? How many billions of dollars are we sending overseas to many different countries to give food, clothing, and medical supplies to? How much money have we spent on fighting the AIDS epidemic in Africa? And even in Iraq, we are not just fighting, we are giving them clean, running water, more electricity than they have had in many years. And yet, despite how much we help other countries, when we retalite to a despicable attack, we are labled as cruel warmongers? That is hardly fair. I am an American. I am proud to be an American. I support George Bush. To my fellow Americans, remember 9/11? Remember how sad and angry you were? Remember how you called for justice? But now that there is criticism, now that we are in an all out war, even though you are safe over here thanks to that very war, suddenly you turn cowards and traitors? Shameful! I love America, and if someone attacks her, you can bet there will be hell to pay for it.
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you are correct -- how do you think all these Middle Eastern countries are getting the money to purchase up all of these US assets that they've been buying for the last 25 years.\n\nI think that America needs to get back on the 'rid ourselves of mid-east oil' kick that we had in the mid to late 70s.  For our own economic protection, we NEED to get alternatives -- nuclear, non-fossil, solar, wind, etc.
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I think there is not a lot anyone wouldn't do for a billion dollars. I mean, really think about it. There are lots of ways to rationalize whatever act you would have to perform. You wouldn't kill anyone, you say? Well, what if you found the target once fondled a child... maybe now he kind of deserves to be shot... doesn't he? Aren't you doing us all a favor? And if your friends and family find out that they have the chance to live in luxury if you will just eat that tiny bit of doggie poo, don't you think they will pressure the hell out of you? The truth is, you can say you would never stoop so low to put that dirty thing in your mouth,  but you are all relieved there is no way for the rest of us to test your loyalties and morals. People are strange animals, capable of the bizarre and atrocious, so don't be so sure of yourselves.
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As some rapper once said (sorry, not a rap fan), and it applies to everything the government has done forever...\n\n"If it don't make dollars then it don't make sense."\n\nThe article should clear up exactly how oil is involved in our situation...to say we are going to war to get the oil is putting it too simply, that's not the end reason.  The reason we need the oil is to cover for our weak dollar and our manufacturing going over-seas.
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What countries were involved - Mostly America and Iraq.  The leaders - President Bush and Sadam Hussein. The cause (my opinion) - Oil and revenge for 9/11.The weapons -   Big guns, small guns, mines, bombs, stuff like that. Number wounded and killed - I dont know the numbers, but many more Iraq than American. The benefits - the wheel is still in spin. Who won/ who lost - no-one yet, probably no-one ever. What could have prevented it - different leaders.
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I believe it was in excess of 500,000.  Bush is only up to 2,000+ Americans and 100,000+ Iraqis (mostly civilian)
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the money is staying with the iraqi people, and where it goes is determined by the iraqi government. and for the record, Bush sold his oil company years ago, so he couldnt possibly have gained from it
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First off, The entire iraqi war on terror was in part to protect the oils assets. Which means the Bush family fortune.\nYes it is a scam. Why else would oil commpany executives and CEOs be questioned and put ontrial and even scolded by our congress. They are making "Not billions" but Trillions of dollars off of common people while our government fabricates things to protect the oil assets. Are they truly in danger? Who knows.\nIts one huge cover up. Europe is used to paying 6 dollars per gallon. So we don't get any sympothy from them at all. They say quite your snivveling. but the truth is we are the ones getting scammed big time! is there anything we common folks can do about it, probably not or at least I am not sure.
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On the conservative side it would cost a minimum of $700 billion dollars taking into account death benefits and health care cost. If you wish to include the lucky ones who escape from being maimed or dead then the above amount I cited is but peanuts.
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I agree that the killing is going to escalate, not stop. Radical Islam has a hell of a lot more people than we do (never learned that from Nam I guessed) and they can wait forever. Also, now they have a martyr, not that he didn't deserve to be killed!\n\nQuite frankly, I am getting a distinct message that the President of Iraq does not like a lot of our behaviour and is trying to throw us out. Don't be surprised when there is no democracy in Iraq, and they become more militant than the ones we threw out. They have a big reason to hate us now!!\n\n"The more our Iraqi security forces, our police, our army, the more they grow in number, in training and are ready and able to perform and to protect our people, then the less we need of the multinational forces," al-Rubaie told CNN's "Late Edition."\n\nHe wants us out! Read between the lines if you are able!\n\nPlease quit with the FREEDOM BS!! We are there for OIL, not freedom!! Saddam WAS NEVER a threat to our freedom, I don't care what kind of spin you use!!! Freedom is the rights rationalization to get oil for the oil companies who pay next to nothing in taxes.\n\nCrude has gone down. Haven't seen any lowering of gas prices. Bunch of low life gougers!
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You have a point about oil revenues from Iraq paying for the war.  So far, production has not made this possible.  The government doesn't sell gas, oil companies do.  They sell their products at the price the market will bear, just like Home Depot, American Airlines, and Wendy's.  Exxon-Mobil made about 9.7 cents per dollar of revenue during their biggest quarter last year, which was their biggest quarter ever.  Want to know what your bank made?  Probably around 25 cents!! Wonder no more why interest rates are so low....the banks are pocketing the change, but you don't hear any uproar about that.   Oil companies typically make around 5.7 cents per dollar, lower than most industries.  If you want to live in a country that has price controls, try China, Cuba, or the former Soviet Union.  Didn't work out too well for them.
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A LOT! a lot of money, a lot of energy, a lot of weapons...but most important- a lot of lives.
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I guess Bush decided to make the American people pay in order for his family to prosper, so instead of paying $$$ to Saddam for oil, he sent soldiers to bring it to him for free. So the "tipping point" is a decision for "changing the way of acquiring oil".