>3) We (the US) has spent billions of our own money trying to repair the infrastructure there. It outweighs this alleged $20B by quite a bit.

Does not seem to bother you even a bit ?
It is at the end of the day YOUR tax-money, spent on something
that is absolutely of - NO benefit to you as LcDan.

Iraq War money + Reconstruction money together = How Much ?
100 Billions ? 200 ?

Imagine this kind of money being spend within US for benefit of US people.

- To combat street crime
- To combat narco-industry
- To build/improve infrastructure
- To build/Improve public schools
- To Improve public hospitals
- To lower industrial polution
- To give schollarships to poor kids
- To tackle illegal immigration.

or why not ;
- Part of it to be given back to you as tax return.

Can you imagine ;

- If there was no 9/11, Iraq/Afganistan wars and defence budget was
slashed in exactly HALF! (since Cold War ended).
And ALL THAT MONEY been spent every year as per above *dirty plan*

- If 200.000 soldiers (in civil clothing) were chasing local narco-dealers selling heroin to your kids (as we speak) - rather then some Joes-Shmoes from Basra, Falouja etc !

- If they were protecting your niegbourhoods rather then theirs.

- If privacy laws were violated for sake of bringing your local criminals to justice, instead spying on political opponents and listening to every US muslim person conersation.

etc

Outlandish ?
Maybe. But think about it.