Newley Purnell

Dispatches from Bangkok

87 Billion Dollars

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So it’s gonna cost at least 87 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq.

Quick calculation: assuming a global population of 6 billion, that means that instead of attempting to reconstruct a country we pre-emptively invaded and destroyed, the US Government could issue a check for $14.50 to every man, woman, and child–including Americans–on the face of the planet.

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September 9th, 2003 at 12:17 pm

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