Bush Iraq war $ will bring US to its knees

Read it and weep: The Three Trillion Dollar War. The Iraq war has already cost us more than the twelve year Vietnam war and twice the cost of the Korean war.

The Bush tax cut, shoddy reporting, a timid congress and a huge real estate bubble lulled Americans into a stupor while our future was being flushed down the toilet. If pro-war McCaine wins the election, I'm outta here.

US infrastructure both old (highways, bridges) and new (broadband, fiber) is long overdue for an upgrade relative to our aspirations and size. Our primary and secondary schools are obsolete.

Imagine what that wasted money could do for infrastructure, schools, job retraining and healthcare. We are spending $12 billion a month. Let's shut this war down now!

The crazy thing is that besides this horrific financial loss (and carnage let's not forget), we are less safe from a military standpoint. Way too many of our troops and military hardware are in Iraq. This leaves us unable to respond to other legitimate threats.   

Someone please pull the plug on the outdated and, as far as I can tell, greedy and malevolent leaders responsible for this mess.

Comments

[Scout Tomyris]

While I agree with you totally about the wasted money and lives, I am also aware that a bunch of those billions are going to the American defense industry. Greed on top of greed. There ARE people out there getting rich off this war and they are not the people of Iraq or most Americans. Apparently the folks benefitting do not care about us or our progeny. Corruption runs rampant while most of us sit back doing nothing while we wait for our pittance of a rebate. I so do not feel sorry for them or us. What we resist, persists. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us average Americans to thwart the war and corruption in general by simply refusing to cooperate. Take that rebate and stash it in your savings or better yet, cash it and put it in your mattress because when the economy tanks, that's where your next dollar is coming from.