Friday, June 01, 2007

Fuzzy Math


I thought I'd do some quick calculations based Shrub's, er, delusion-he-calls-vision, that is, Iraq on the 50 year occupation/installment plan...Assuming some consistency, here's how things break down, no pun intended--

Numbers are approximate:

US Soldier Deaths: 36,000-40,000...or more, given that the "Coalition" will be us...and private contractors.
US Soldiers Wounded: 350,000
Cost in Dollars: $5,110,000,000,000 (a little over $5 trillion dollars).

And that doesn't even factor the cost to Iraqis.

Actually, "how things break down" is pretty appropriate.

Sources: here and here.

At those prices, you could literally build titanium levees.

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