Quote Originally Posted by tony
Apology given, I took it out of context. One would assume that we learned from Vietnam BUT vietnam didn't have oil fields like Iraq.

If anyone remembers when the war was proposed that the funding would come from the revenue of Iraq oil.. now 5 years later the U.S has paid $400 Billion while our economy has crumbled.
Its actually well over 500 billion dollars now. The thing is, that's all borrowed money. When you borrow that much money, it increases the supply of the dollar and is one of the identifiable causes of the tremendous down turn in the value of the dollar in terms of currency exchange.