Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 13, 2007
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Transcript:
Soldier: Mmmm! My favorite! Halliburton mystery chunks! So whatcha reading now, Professor? Man: Article about Muhammad Yunus. Soldier: Who? Man: You know, father of the microloan. Won the Nobel Peace Prize. He figured out if you made credit - as little as $100 - available to impoverished women, they could become self-sustaining entrepreneurs! Do you realize we could be lifting 3,000,000 families out of poverty with what we spend here in Iraq in a single day? Soldier: Man, you don't wan to get into that head trip of "what would $275 million buy?" Soldier: Yeah. Man: Why not? Soldiers: 2,000,000 air conditioners. 6,000 tanker trucks of beer. 500,000 Playstation 3's... Man: Okay, okay.
