Good question.

AmericaBlog wonders "How Would You Spend $200 Billion?" and offers an intriguing suggestion.

Instead of invading Iraq, Bush could have paid off the ENTIRE debt of some 30+ Third World countries, given countless nations a radical chance at improving their economic livelihood, created tremendous good will for the US, encouraged them (through incentives) to embrace democracy and economic reform (which would be far harder for governments to avoid with the huge opportunity this would have provided) and in the end helped turn impoverished nations into vibrant nations and -- hey, it's good for the US economy -- growing markets for our goods and services.

Of course, there's health care, education, hunger, homelessness, an amazing array of possibilities.

And oh yeah. We're deep in debt ourselves, and getting deeper every day.

So, how would you spend $200 billion?