A cartoon about Iraq

[The Straight Story]

[Muttocracy]

1. this is where America's math illiteracy becomes important

I think about those bits where Leno walks around asking people to estimate things and people have NO idea.

[Lasher]

2. We could have just bought the whole country.

Average income fell from $3,600 per person in 1980 to about $530 by the end of 2003. But let's say we made them an offer in 2001 when the average was about $900.

There's about 28.5 million Iraqis. $500 billion amounts to $18,182 for each one of them. That's equivalent to their 2001 income for twenty years.

We could have doubled our offer because we'll end up spending at least $1 trillion before we're through. So make it what they could expect to have earned working for 40 years. The equivalent of all their income for having worked their entire adult lives. For every single man, woman, and child.

[The Straight Story]

3. good point (nt)