Saturday, May 12, 2007
Too much fuckin' perspective!
Right, I know this turgid cul-de-sac of a blog has been a bit right-on and political for the last few posts and I promise that the next post will have a cock joke in it, but just one last word on the Iraq thing and all the things that thing and thingy did with it.
This here website has a nice item about the US cost of the big adventure in the Middle East and what else it could have bought. Here's a snippet just to give some sense on how much state-sponsored mass-murder could actually buy (and remember, if you voted Labour in the last general election you pardoned all of this):
"According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.
At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years."
The US and the UK: Bringing democracy to the World one racist war at a time.
This here website has a nice item about the US cost of the big adventure in the Middle East and what else it could have bought. Here's a snippet just to give some sense on how much state-sponsored mass-murder could actually buy (and remember, if you voted Labour in the last general election you pardoned all of this):
"According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.
At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years."
The US and the UK: Bringing democracy to the World one racist war at a time.
