And the Winner Is...

[ICantSpellDawg]

Isn't the pleasure of winning the lottery a metaphysical value? But no doubt you'd compare it to the freedom of millions of people and consider it lesser. You are in effect putting a price tag on it. Just like bill gates looks at the r.o.i. of the lottery and puts his money elsewhere. How many people die a year from malaria? How much money would it take to save them? I'll stand by my analogy any day.

So your argument is that because other things cost money, any money spent on the war in Iraq is wasted in the wrong direction. What was an acceptable price tag for the war in Iraq?

Free nations with un-obstructive governments will benefit from disease control the most and be able to perpetuate it beyond the acute western intervention. Spread the freedom first.

[LittleGrizzly]

It depends on why the hell we went in there to be honest, in terms of the war on terror its a disiaster, Al Qaeda were enemy's with Saddam and had basically nothing to do with Iraq, now look at AQ in iraq, its a loss on that front

We replaced saddam at huge cost and have a potentially stable Iraq now, slight success....

WMDs... need i say more....

At the end of the day taking it all into account i don't now if i would declare victory... a somewhat stable iraq does seem possible, civil war isn't inevitable anymore and the death toll seems to have slowed somewhat, not exactly a victory but something good at least..

[Fragony]

WMDs... need i say more....

Hiroshima mon amour

[CrossLOPER]

Hiroshima mon amour

What does that movie have to do with anything?

[Fragony]

What does that movie have to do with anything?

What's it to you how I adress LittleGrizly?

[CountArach]

What's it to you how I adress LittleGrizly?

[ICantSpellDawg]

It depends on why the hell we went in there to be honest, in terms of the war on terror its a disiaster, Al Qaeda were enemy's with Saddam and had basically nothing to do with Iraq, now look at AQ in iraq, its a loss on that front

We replaced saddam at huge cost and have a potentially stable Iraq now, slight success....

WMDs... need i say more....

At the end of the day taking it all into account i don't now if i would declare victory... a somewhat stable iraq does seem possible, civil war isn't inevitable anymore and the death toll seems to have slowed somewhat, not exactly a victory but something good at least..

Do you view insurance costs as a waste of money if there is no catastrophe?

[CrossLOPER]

Do you view insurance costs as a waste of money if there is no catastrophe?

So now we're basing a foreign policy on..... hypothetical stuff?