By Richard E Walrath

How long ago was it that United Nations inspectors were on the ground in Iraq and the United States had over 100,000 troops stationed in Kuwait all alive and well?

How much would it have cost to keep those troops in Kuwait and the United Nations inspectors in Iraq?

My guess is that we would be about one trillion dollars ahead by this time, not to mention the dead and wounded American soldiers and who knows how many tens of thousands of Iraqi innocent citizens.

Only about 1% of the people in the United States have or know anybody in the war in Iraq. 

That’s not enough to make that much of an impression on the other 99% who are not involved.  This is the first war in history where people were told to go shop rather than sacrifice.