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Quote by: The American  One more point to ponder. We did understand before we engaged operations to oust Hussein, the war would be costly and take a long time. Congress approved the measure. They continue to dump funds there. However, the draft of the Iraqi Constitution includes money paid back for restoration.
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This is not correct. They said that Iraqi oil revenues were going to pay for the cost of the conflict, which was being predicted to be a small amount of money because Iraq's oil revenue was rather small at 2 million barrels per day and $20/barrel, that's $40 million a day. The cost of this war is now topping $3+ trillion when one accounts for the full cost of the war. If you took the entire oil output for the past 6 years, that would be $1,500 per barrel, or about $120,000 per Iraqi, or if you want to assume that we whacked 10 times as many of them, as they did us, it would be about $60,000,000 per Al Queda member.