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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. The [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/country_profiles/newsid_1162000/1162668.stm]population[/URL] of Afghanistan is about 26 million. Now, Rob says we're dropping 10,000 food packets per cruise missile. Although cruise missiles are fairly cheap -- [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/cruise_missile/default.stm] $600,000[/URL] -- we would have to be firing [b]2600[/b] cruise missiles (at a cost of, for what I calculate it to be, $105,456,000,000,000 -- correct me if I'm wrong) $[i]per day[/i] to make certain the population of Afghanistan got food. Somehow, I doubt that is happening. Now, I've done my bit. Rob, you dig up somewhere that the U.S. has fired 2600 cruise missiles since the campaign in Afghanistan began (at the cost of $105 trillion per day), and I'll shut my mouth. Otherwise, shut yours. You'll remember that what you got irritated at was that I said we weren't dropping a lot of food to them given the size of their population ... you then blathered on about the food packet/cruise missile ratio, and when I suggested it would be better to look at the population per-day/cruise missiles ... well, you were 'cross' And now you've been beaten into the ground! Woo-hoo! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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