What Does $465 Billion Buy?

[dgridley]

$465 Billion Dollars

That's how much we've spent on the war in Iraq so far.. any concept of what else we could have done with that money?

Boston.com does...

When I was a kid, I really thought we'd have colonies on Mars by now.. and so far, we've only traveled as far as Iraq

 

[RJ]

A few of those are pretty silly. I like these two,

"At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years."

"With just one-sixth of the US money targeted for the Iraq war, you could convert all cars in America to run on ethanol." << Then we wouldn't even need Iraq's oil anymore.

 

[peaches017]

any concept of what else we could have done with that money?

Domains... Lots.

 

[RJ]

Yep. You could have bought sex.com 32,571 times.

Or renewed every .COM in existence for an additional 857 years each.

 

[dgridley]

It's an enormous sum of money ...

 

[James]

its sad to see they've spent that amount of money.

 

[webmasterinfo]

What Does $465 Billion Buy?
- Freedom for Iraq people, then how much money isnt relevant.

 

[gingeman]

Yep. You could have bought sex.com 32,571 times.

Or renewed every .COM in existence for an additional 857 years each.

Nice, statto! :hehe: I'm impressed.

I think it is good to try and provide comparisons to what could have been done with that money as it is the best way to relate to just what a pointless sacrifice it is spending it taking lives.

 

[gmtfan]

I would buy google, yahoo, microsoft then destroy them to create some new chances for you guys become billionaires and stop being domainers. :lol:

 

[angisson]

leave it to RJ to figure that out :gl:

 

[eggman]

I might actually be able to buy a house in London...

 

[Barrucadu]

Renew all my domains for 10 years;
Get a huge house in the countryside (near a forest and a lake);
Buy said forest, lake & land around them;
Get a very good private tutor (no school :D);
Get the fastest internet connection possible;
Live comfortably on top of a heap of money.

Ah, if only it were true...

 

[networkmsia]

I would buy google, yahoo, microsoft then destroy them to create some new chances for you guys become billionaires and stop being domainers. :lol:

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[fonzie_007]

That's what we call pissing money down the drain. To make matters worse, there is no end in sight.

 

[dgridley]

My main contention has always been the war in Iraq is unwinnable.. IMO we went in uninvited, mis/un/informed, and unprepared.. we fought for our own democracy and I think we should let others countries make the same decision and fight for it themselves if that's what they want.

That's what we call pissing money down the drain. To make matters worse, there is no end in sight.

 

[fonzie_007]

My main contention has always been the war in Iraq is unwinnable.. IMO we went in uninvited, mis/un/informed, and unprepared.. we fought for our own democracy and I think we should let others countries make the same decision and fight for it themselves if that's what they want.

Agreed 100% along with the fact there was no connection between Iraq and 9-11.

 

[labrocca]

Man that's a tough number to think about.

 

[commes]

My main contention has always been the war in Iraq is unwinnable.. IMO we went in uninvited

ok not to be mean or anything...but is anyone ever invited into a war?lol "oh yes Canada, comes face us, Germany, we want to see if we can beat you and all teh otehrs at the same time, if not, I, adolf hitler, will kill myself upon defeat"
haha sorry dave, jsut had to say sumthin lol:P

Anyways that much cold hard cash would buy me just about every classic car that I want...first on the list: 1972/74 hemi-Cuda that's hemi orange, now THATS well spent money!

 

[Humdizzy]

Imagine all the cars. All the cures. All the good that could come from that money. Why can't we spend billions on good? We can spend billions on wars, but when it comes to good things there is only but such a budget.

 

[commes]

Because the politcal leaders consider war different. Theres a different between war, and trying to make peace. WWII, i understand that, as they were trying to keep peace baswically and free the Jews of their living hell. But this war, we went in trying to stop basically a civil war, and I can't really see us stopping their civil war. At first I supported the war in Iraq, but now I'm starting to change my views on things.