As the Clarion-Ledger is reporting today:
[T]he entire state of Mississippi’s general fund is “only” $3.6 billion [compared to the $87 billion bush says is needed to sustain our “war” in Iraq].If given to Mississippi, no citizen would have to pay a dime of state income, sales, tobacco, alcohol, gasoline or other state tax to fund state government at all for 24 years.
When added to the $79 billion granted in April that was supposed to cover the Iraq war and its aftermath, it’s 43 years.(clapping) (emphases mine).. . . The pre-war gross domestic product of Iraq (1998) was listed as $52.3 billion: GDP Afghanistan, $20 billion.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper just to buy them?