It has been 5 years since the invasion of Iraq. Has anything been at all achieved over these 5 years. Its a trillion dollar question. Why? Beause it is estimated that the cost of the war (both direct and indirect) so far has been around 3 trillion dollars. And also there is the human losses which amounts to thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, millions displaced due to ethnic tensions and American soldiers killed during their patrols.
The main reason for this war according to the US president was that Saddam Hussein was possessing weapons of mass destruction and that there was link between him and terrorists. All that was proven wrong and it was actually after the invasion that Iraq has become a breeding ground for terrorists.
Had this war been not fought the money ould have been used for useful purposes in the US and for providing aid to other poor countries in tha African continent.
The burning issue of climate change could have been better tackled using this money by allocating funds to make greener technlogy.
But President Bush does not want to look at it this way. His only aim was to invade Iraq and defeat Saddam Hussein no matter how much the cost of the war. His economy is now running on a huge budget deficit. His legacy would be passing on the ruins of Iraq war and giving the nation a huge budget deficit
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Trillion dollar war
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