how to support the troops

There are apparently 200,000 troops in Iraq right now.  They're putting their lives on the line.  At this point, we've spent between 600 billion and 1.2 trillion on the war.  Let's pick 800 billion.  You could circle the earth with a 400 ft wide ribbon made of dollar bills.

Or you could pay each soldier $1 million per year each to just stay home. 

(ok now I'm getting semi-serious:)

Or... there are 27 million people in Iraq.  You could resettle everyone in Iraq at $30,000 a person.  That figure seems reasonable for shelter and infrastructure built at third-world labor rates.  Basically you could buy up some land in neighboring countries or in unsettled parts of Iraq and create new communities..  You could separate the religious factions from each other and separate everyone from the high value targets and battle zones.  Resettlement wouldn't be involuntary, but if the majority of Iraqis simply want to escape the violence (and most do), and there is a cash bonus and a drop in violence by moving, they will do it.  These communities (especially with the appropriate training programs) could quickly become self-sufficient economically.  

I'm just brainstorming while riding in a taxi... so some of these thoughts are rough.  But with billions more spent every month, I'm really surprised people aren't considering a broader range of options to end this war.

Tom Friedman recently wrote an article today about how young people are perfectly willing to be activist on the Internet, but not so much in the physical world.  As a result, the amount of political action we can accomplish is very limited.