[PigRigger]

"Then you won't mind footing the bill? Open your wallet and use your money for any kind of experiment you care to."

I didn't mind paying the 10's of billions to clean-up lower Manhattan, Washinton DC, and our airline industry; did you?. Multiply that at least 10x if we fail in the Middle East.

If we succeed $87 Billion will be seen as worth the price. If we fail, it will probably be a pittance when compared to the cost in lives and property we may have to sacrifice to win.

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t agree that all expenditures should be granted without review. I just don’t believe that holding up this amount will serve our country in an way, especially during this critical period.

[zacyak]

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t agree that all expenditures should be granted without review.

Then why support the re-building expeditures in Iraq, most, if not all, which have been no bid contracts with political favoritism involved?

[bc2]

Rebuilding the airline industry was a prime example of corporate welfare; if the airlines (or auto industry, or any other industry for that matter) can't support themselves, let them fall and someone with a better business plan will step forward if it's profitable.

To have American taxpayers pay for this garbage is beyond comprehension. It is far beyond the bounds of our Constitution, and antithetical to everything that is American, let alone "conservative".

You certainly are a liberal.