2.5 Trillion Dollars

After you get past $1.98, most people cannot envision sums of money. The war in Iraq is now estimated to cost 2.5 trillion dollars. This is enough money to solve the social security problem for 75 years. It is certainly enough money to provide health care for everyone for a long time. This money needless to say is being borrowed. It is not being borrowed from poor people. The same people who are asking for tax breaks in the millionaire bracket are the same beneficiaries of the interest on the borrowed money. Of course there are other big beneficiaries, like China who owns massive portions of our debt. When one remembers Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 it becomes truly mind boggling that we are spending the money we are in Iraq. Once you see who is profiting from the war everything falls into place. The whole thing is such a replay of Vietnam, it is like we don't have history books in this country.