[Aurel]

$11Bn a month is what the war in Iraq is costing to the US taxpayers. I was thinking on other ways that money could be spent. For instance, you could give $110 M a month to 100 Universities for research on alternative energies. But really, $110M a year would be plenty enough, so there would be plenty of money left for other purposes.

Now, let us think a little bit at the return on investment for the war in Iraq. I see Iran and North Korea emboldedened in developing Nukes. I see a civil war with no solution in sight in Iraq that is going to destabiliize the entire region. I see gas prices going up again, the dollar at a record low, and the stock market losing confidence. Plus all the deads on both sides of the war.

Really, I can think of a thousand better ways that money could have been spent. It somehow angers me, and definitely makes me think that we are governed by complete idiots for wohm I have no respect whatsoever.

Aurel