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Economist and Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz recently published a book entitled The Three Trillion Dollar War. He claims that the global cost of the war (not just counting troops wartime bonuses or weapons, but a host of indirect costs) is above three trillion dollars for the US and the same for the rest of the world.

There are roughly 30 million people living in Iraq.

Instead of using the money to destroy a country and make cripples, terrorists, or fundamentalists, maybe it would have been smarter (and just as machiavellian) to share the six trillion dollars among Iraqis and give a million to each family, in exchange of all the oil, a democratic tame government, and exclusive commercial rights for US firms, so that the money finds its way back to where it came from.

Nobody wants to blow themselves up when they get to choose between being a martyr and a millionaire.

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