Um, sorry, but the wheat contract is a drop in the bucket.
http://www.costofwar.com/
http://www.americanprogress.org/site...J8OVF&b=171440
just a few sources.
Let's see...5 billion > 144 billion?
Not to mention the costs that aren't added up on a calculator. As far as wheat contracts are concerned, weren't we supposed to be getting all this oil money from somewhere? Wonder what happened.