do you know how much money the spent to send people over there. i beleive his buget for it last time was 690 billion dollars. my point is that they american army is spread too thin andit was faulty tactics that won you guys the war. all this stuff you're dealing with now is the result of the iraqi army taking off there uniform and puting on civiliam cloths. had the US done a better job for the invasion they would be in much better position. and see what they should do it train there marines to survive without a $5 000 gun. you can fund the war very nicely if they use weapons that are cheaper. the problem with eh US army is that they depend on technology too much and htats what drives the buget through the roof.the only way they are going to acutally subdue the insurgency properly is with man power not more weapons. but yeah even my solution is filled with holes but thats jsut how the whole thing is, its just a fucked up situation as it is, and its what you guys for electing a dumbass like bush as president. you cant back out now but see you guys could afford to pull out much faster if you get off your reliance on oil. cause then you just need to stablize the government, and not help with reconstruction directly. but if you want hind sight, bush should have taken that 690 billion and put that into research, rather then start firing off 2 million dollar cruise missles, that dont do that much. iraq military was broken in 91 when the us first went in. and i bet if the US said to sadam, ok we are withdrawing all the money we spend to get you oil all that revenue he might have responded better.