The Iraqi Policy


Another $70 as a "down payment." Hell, Saddam Hussein is beginning to look like a fiscal conservative in comparison...or, at the very least, someone who expected something in return for outlays of public money.

Approval by a comfortable margin came despite intense partisan divisions over the course of the Iraq war, which is costing about $8 billion a month. Another infusion of money will be needed next spring...

The House-Senate compromise bill provides $378 billion for core Pentagon programs, about a 5 percent increase, though slightly less than President Bush asked for. The $70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan is a down payment on war costs the White House has estimated will hit $110 billion for the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

Congress has now approved $507 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and heightened security at overseas military bases since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to the Congressional Research Service. The war in Iraq has cost $379 billion and the conflict in Afghanistan now totals $97 billion.

And what are we getting for our $500 billion? Squat--slipshod construction (or is that "shitshod"?), a broken military, defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan...although Big Time Dick's raking in shareholder profits, and the boy chimperator haughtily announces that anyone with a reality based worldview is a second-guessing cut 'n runner.

AND, as an added bonus, the administration is too immature to even consider cleaning the mess in their OWN country along the Gulf Coast. How can anyone think they're capable of achieving whatever the modern equivalent of "peace with honor" is, much less cleaning up the mess they've made over there?

Well, what do you expect from vicious, evil idiots?