{"id":1963,"date":"2007-10-22T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/what-it-costs\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T00:58:15","slug":"what-it-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/what-it-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"what it costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/10\/22\/war.spending\/\">this article<\/a> the war in Iraq costs two billion dollar. A week. I am sure that those 160,000 troops risking their life will be glad to know that that amounts to 12,500 US$ a week for each of them. Or we could just leave and pay each each 75 US$ a week. Does not sound like much, but the GDP per person and week is 64US$. So, yes, the US spends more on the war than the country is producing on its own. It used to be one of the wealthiest countries with a larger population in the arab world. Now this war has been gone for quiet some time.<br \/>\nAnd, no, we still have not found those weapons of mass destruction. That was the reason why the US had ot go there. So we have been told.  That is a old story you might think. Exactly that kind of thinking helps this administration. They told us that war was the only option because of those weapons of mass destruction. We should hold them to their own arguments, instead of falling for their next story version about the &#8216;front in the war on terror&#8217;. Some things are simple. This one is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According tothis article the war in Iraq costs two billion dollar. A week. I am sure that those 160,000 troops risking their life will be glad to know that that amounts to 12,500 US$ a week for each of them. Or we could just leave and pay each each 75 US$ a week. 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