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Who needs love when we have the media to keep us warm? Objective reports of policy, collateral, and defending freedoms boil my blood, for damn sure. Today, the smooth talker told me that our government (My government) will initially spend eighty billion dollars to fight. (who knows what more to win?) Eighty billion leaves of green on the backs of rucksacks and gunner belts, leaves of green on children fighting dying bleeding crying needing silence. We at home, and they in field, adult or not, filers or not, pay two hundred eighty-five dollars and fifteen cents apiece for fighting dying bleeding crying needing euphemistic (foreign) policy. Maybe that's not too much. Maybe it's worth it. Tell your children, and I'll tell mine, and we can feel better because two eighty-five sounds lots less than three thousand three hundred thirty three dollars and nine pennies American for every citizen, dead or alive, of Iraq. Small price to pay for our freedom. Our freedom will pay for itself when we liberate the suffering to Allah's waiting hands and rape God's rocky soil for cheap fuel for our neighbors' SUVs. April, 2003 Initial spending bill for the Iraq War: $80,000,000,000 Population of the USA: 280,562,490 Population of Iraq: 24,001,816 Sources: Encarta Encyclopedia, 2004 edition NPR Morning Edition April 4, 2003 |
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