[Mb-civic] Iraq-Et

[richard haase]

lol
or did something really wild and impulsive with it
like fed the poor
and rebuilt our urban ghettos
and took care also of the rural poor
what a mad thought!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
To: "mb-civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: [Mb-civic] Iraq-Et


> Re:  Iraq-Et
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> This war has now cost us, what?  300 billion dollars?
>
> Imagine...  If we had taken a fraction of that dough:
>
> And just bribed the appropriate "officials..."
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> CheeseComment:
>
>
> Excellent point.
>
> While your words tempt me to make an entire lengthy list up about what we
> could actually have done with $300 Billion instead of creating the deaths
> and woundings of thousands of American etc G.I.s, the slaughter of 100,000
> Iraqi civilian men women and children, the creation of a breeding ground
for
> "Terrorism" itself, the destruction of almost the entire historical and
> archeological artifacts documents etc of Iraq's priceless thousands of
years
> old history, the pleasure it has brought us to create such torture places
as
> Guantanamo, Abu Graib, etc, and the joy it has brought us to do
> Extraordinary Renditions of "suspects" to 2nd countries exclusively for
the
> purpose of torture in the name of Democracy and the freedom-loving people
of
> America, I will just make up a short one, and leave the rest for others to
> fill in.
>
> With $300 Billion we could have (perhaps):
>
> Found the cure for all cancers in the world.
> Found the cure for AIDS.
> Found the cure for all spinal diseases.
> Found the cure for just about anything you can think of.
> Saved millions of people dying in Africa etc.
> Bought the entire country of Iraq almost outright.
> Bought off Saddam Hussein himself.
> Bought off a handful of people like Osama bin Laden and Ariel Sharon, in
one
> fell swoop.
> Changed the entire American education system for the better, actually
> finding some teachers who can spell, do math, and don't still believe we
are
> a province of England.
> Bought off almost the entire "Islamic Jihad" movement, again, in one fell
> swoop.
> Bought off at least one Communist Chinese leader for at least half an
hour.
> Bought at least one WalMart store in one small American town for at least
3
> minutes.
> Bought off Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Rove, Rice, etc, and all the NeoCons
for
> at least 3 seconds.
>
>
> Well, my lists get too long and too funny and too tired too quickly.
>
> Suffice it to say, yes, there is a lot of really creative, good,
> constructive things we could have done with $300 Billion, but we chose the
> great American way of death, destruction, endless uselessly sacrificed
> innocent lives, to create an actual breeding ground for people we need to
> keep well-financed and always at the gates of America so our arms dealers
> etc will never have to wonder where their next buck is coming from.
>
> Since we just give Israel $4 Billion each year, we could have actually
paid
> them off for like the next 75 years or something and just be done with it.
>
> Yes, there's all kinds of things we could have done with that kind of huge
> money, but we chose instead to keep the catalysts for the profits of
> American and Other warmongers up and running, healthy, and in good
spirits,
> until just about the end of time.
>
> All in all a relatively good day's work for a huge pile of assholes who
keep
> telling us that we should never worry because they are looking out for our
> best interests.
>
> Our only consolation is the knowledge of the fact that with friends like
> them, we will always have enemies........
>
>
> p.s.:  Someone please wake me up when the Alan Greenspan trial comes on
tv.
>
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>
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>
> Cheeseburger
>
> .
>
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