When does it stop? From the stupid underreported cost of the prescription drug thing to this, my fiscally conservative heart keeps getting crushed.
Does anyone else think it wouldv'e been more cost-and-lives-effective to give Saddam and his family the original $87B to exile to Argentina or something? Then Iraq coulda kept its infrastructure and everything, and no American lives lost.
I bet we coulda got him to take it. "Take the payoff, or get bombed into oblivion." With this resolute a president, it would resonate.
SIGH. I guess we need to keep on giving since our brave kids are out there still. I don't begrudge THEM anything. I just wish this war had been prosecuted more intelligently.
VG, you must be in a down mood today.
This president has done only what any insightful brave man would have done. He has taken the fight to the enemy, and he is winning.
We have not even reached 2% of GDP in war spending, and in WWII we reached 26%.
This war has been prosecuted near perfectly, imho, in a hostile environment amidst a traitorous, 5th column american media.
The only thing: My son just returned from Iraq last Friday. He said that he and his friends have one request for the next war....they're tired of this "desert" thing and wonder if we can't take over the Bahamas next time.