And only about $1,000,000,000,000 over budget. That’s OK. I mean, we don’t have the money, but heck, that’s what we’re here for right? To run our country into the ground so some Sunnis and Shiites halfway around the world can practice democracy. Yeah, that’s a priority.
Rummy got caught up in the anti Bush hatred mess. No different than Gonzalez.
Iraq was unintended consequences for the rats. They tried to lose the war for us by going after rummy, so rummy resigns. And then we pacify the place with the surge they wouldnt let rummy do.
If the rats didn’t once again prove they are democracy haters, we would have been out of Iraq in 2005.
The Bush Admin didn’t have to give any warning about how the war was going to go. It’s only indicative of the fact that they took their time going into Iraq that people remember what was said about how the war might turn out. Where are the quotes of Lincoln saying that 600,000 Americans would die in the Civil War?
Peddling more Daily Koz BS figures here you lousey Left Wing Hater.
Go slug away from here , scum.
You can’t blame Rumsfeld for that expenditure. Rumsfeld was only the Defense Secretary, the war was agreed to be Congress and the President. Moreover Rumsfeld is a “fight lean” man.
And it wasn’t $1T over budget on any account. The cost is closer to $500B $1T. That’s over 8 years and is much less than the 3 years of “stimulus”.
Personally, speaking from many historical precedents, I’d have liked if we could have paid for the war from the Iraqi Oil revenues. I think that by doing so, by running those oil fields we would have more peace there, not less. We are more honest then they in paying out, our honesty and fairness would be peace-makers. But that seems to have been a President Bush-State Department decision to turn over the fields to the Iraqis. Again, not Rumsfeld.
You are very shortsighted. Did it occur to you that if they are halfway around the world practicing democracy they may not come here to practice Sharia?