25 October 2007

Never mind the capital...

...the "don't worry it's going to pay for itself" War in Iraq is going to cost the US taxpayer 415 billion USD in interest alone. This comes to, at a generous 3 million barrels a day, about 20 USD per barrel for every barrel of oil that Iraq produces in the next twenty years just to pay the interest!

Money well spent? You decide!

Note: I was going to work out the total cost per barrel but decided it would be too frightening, even for Republicans.

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