TweetDude, I appricate what your trying to say here but what we should really be debating is WHAT exactly are we buying for that 87 billion? If, in 10 years, Iraq`s literacy rate is 90%+ and the hospitals have more beds than sick people, well that`s a good job. If on the other hand in ten years Iraq has lots of oil production and an ignorant, improverished, rebelling popluation...