NOTED IN PASSING
Traditionally there are 13 steps to a gallows (though whether that holds in Iraq may or may not be so). But for the sake of argument, let’s posit that.
Using approximate (and rounded for convenience) numbers, roughly $390 billion has been thrown at sustaining G. Walker’s fiasco in Iraq thus far.
That’s $30 billion
per step. ($390,000,000,000 ÷ 13 = $30,000,000,000)
There are roughly 300 million citizens in the U.S.
So one way to (an impishly dark one, granted) arrange the absolute numbers is that they come out to $100 per each step dunned you, the person next to you, the next one to him or her, and so on.
