And the Winner Is...

[ICantSpellDawg]

I always though lottery's were around 1 million. Hence the "500 million for 1 million".

Lottery value varies

Why's that? Why is Iraq so damn special that it's put above places like Sudan where people have been suffering for years? We could've done a damn lot more good helping poor nations get back on their feet. I mean, with all the money we spent on Iraq, we could've been helping out the starving people in the Congo and end the Darfur genocide.

Iraq is special for many reasons. For the ideological reasons it has feet to stand on when we help it up.

Which actually raises the question, when did Iraq stop being about the Weapons that we went in for and start becoming the great crusade of liberation? Was it around the "Mission Accomplished" mark?

When we realized that there were no WMD's. We went in for a number of other reasons, all of which have been consistently articulated for many years.

Security from WMD proliferation was one of the primary objectives and the objective that best helped sell the war to the American people. I beleived then as I blieve now that the war in Iraq has been worth the cost.