{"id":3005,"date":"2007-08-03T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:07:26","slug":"how-many-bridges-can-you-repair-with-a-trillion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/how-many-bridges-can-you-repair-with-a-trillion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Bridges Can You Repair with a Trillion Dollars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By David Swanson<\/p>\n

Bush is visiting the site of a bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis tomorrow. He and Cheney and Congress have spent $488 billion on the illegal occupation of Iraq, which works out to $10.7 billion from Minnesota, or $1.2 billion from Minneapolis and St. Paul. Think you could fix a bridge with that? These are the most conservative possible figures, excluding future costs already budgeted, excluding interest on debt created, excluding lost benefits of having put these funds to positive use. Most estimates of the cost of this occupation fall between 1 and 2 trillion dollars. Also excluded is the cost in human life and the greater peril this occupation has put all of us in.<\/p>\n

Suggested slogans for posters, banners, ads behind airplanes, etc.:<\/p>\n

Fund Bridges, not Wars
\nWe Want Our Billion Dollars and Our Troops Back
\nBuild This Country, Stop Bombing Others
\nNew York, New Orleans, and Minneapolis Thank Bush and Cheney
\nThis Is Your Nation With Impeachment off the Table
\nImpeach Bush for Blowing the Job
\nGet Tough on Crime: Impeach W and Dick
\nNow Can We Impeach?
\nImpeach Cheney and Bush
\nBusiness Before Pleasure: Impeach Cheney First
\nRule of Law or Rule of Cheney: Time to Choose
\nImpeach the Son of a Bush
\nRegime Change Begins at Home
\nThe End Is Near: Article II, Section 4
\nNixon Ignored Subpoenas Too
\nImpeach for Peace
\nImpeachment Is the Only Exit Strategy
\nBenching Bush Is the Only Benchmark
\n(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Swanson Bush is visiting the site of a bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis tomorrow. He and Cheney and Congress have spent $488 billion on the illegal occupation of Iraq, which works out to $10.7 billion from Minnesota, or $1.2 billion from Minneapolis and St. Paul. 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