Back to the math, my calculations show that a $9 trillion total
national debt with 300 million people is $30,000 for every man, woman
and child - from babies in the cradle to old people, taxpaying or not.
Family of 4, that's $120,000 owed to the nation's creditors.

If the war costs $200 billion (pulled that out of my butt, but it's way
more than the initial $87B), that's $666 for every man, woman and
child. Nice round number huh. :-)

I wonder what the vote would have been if it had not been in Congress
but by a vote of the people, worded thus, "Should the government charge
you $666 for each man, woman and child in your household, to attack a
country that has never attacked the United States, with whom we are not
currently at war? BTW this is in addition to the current war in
Afganistan."

It would have been 299 million against.

Tox