Cost of Iraq war could top $2 trillion: study

[AtW]

It's interesting isn't it that some of the biggest medical breakthroughs in history have come from war?

I fail to see any breakthroughs from Iraq war apart from pockets of close business friends of Mr Bush.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I fail to see any breakthroughs from Iraq war apart from pockets of close business friends of Mr Bush.

Not forgetting Mr Blairs lucrative guaranteed US lecture circuit tour after he legs it from the UK.

[Lucifer Box]

I fail to see any breakthroughs from Iraq war apart from pockets of close business friends of Mr Bush.

Do you read any medical journals?

[AtW]

Do you read any medical journals?

No - but if anything significant was developed then it would have been in popular press and TV.

$2 trillion is about $333 per person in the whole world - barely enough for a night out in London, but it could eliminate famine and save millions of people who would otherwise certainly die.

Now please provide information about medical breakthroughs from those jurnals, but please skip those that refer to improved version of Viagra.

[Lucifer Box]

I'm sure you are absolutely correct.

[wendigo100]

What's all this about dismembered troops? They were all home by Christmas 2003, as scheduled in Tony Blair's Grand Plan.

[Jabberwocky]

No - but if anything significant was developed then it would have been in popular press and TV.

$2 trillion is about $333 per person in the whole world - barely enough for a night out in London, but it could eliminate famine and save millions of people who would otherwise certainly die.

Now please provide information about medical breakthroughs from those jurnals, but please skip those that refer to improved version of Viagra.

Surely if that money were to be used to help cure gayness then the world would be a better place. There is some literature on finding the gay gene - what if we could identity and eradicate the Labor gene too - surely that would be worth the money as well.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Surely if that money were to be used to help cure gayness then the world would be a better place. There is some literature on finding the gay gene - what if we could identity and eradicate the Labor gene too - surely that would be worth the money as well.

Aye JW

Yet surely the cherry on the cake would be the eradication of the HR gene ?

Now theres a noble cause ....

[Board Game Geek]

Speaking of which I wonder how many of the pro war folks prior to the conflict still think it was all worthwhile ?

In retrospect Alf, that's a thought-provoking question, and I think I will have to hang my head in shame and say, ok mate...it wasn't worthwhile was it ?

All that effort, all those lives, and for what ? A complete mess.

Looking back on it now, I can see that the only sensible and cost-effective solution would have been to nuke the place off the face of the earth.

I think that would have saved countless lives on our side, and sent an unequivocal warning to the rest of the dodgy terrorist nations that the US mean business.

For the price of some decent large nukes, they would have had plenty of pocket change left to develop a cure for aids or cancer, which they then present with the other hand.

No point being big and powerful, if you don't temper it with something nice as well.

[AtW]

Looking back on it now, I can see that the only sensible and cost-effective solution would have been to nuke the place off the face of the earth.

Precision strike on Saddam would have done the job - or a team of assassins. All totalitarian states have way too much weight placed in a single person whose assasination can change a lot.