Alternately,
The CIA World Fact Book lists the per-capital annual income in Iraq at around $3,400.
We spent more than ten times that per-capita to invade their country and get rid of Saddam Hussein. We could have hired every man, woman, and child in Iraq to do it themselves for a tenth the cost, and they'd have had enough left over to build themselves a paradise like the UAE. For sure we'd have been greeted with cheers and flowers if we'd showered that kind of money on their heads.