In dollars and cents the United States has spent roughly $522 Billion, with at least $70 Billion allocated for the beginning of this year alone.
As an aside, what could all that money buy us as taxpayers? What else could we of spent that money on here in America that we desperately need?
Romantic? Bush's comments are all the more despicable because he could have served in Vietnam, but thanks to family connections instead spent his time in a cushy "champagne unit" in the air national guard and didn't even complete his service. It's also not the first time he's said something like this. It's one thing to receive preferential treatment, but when Bush is also sending others to die, without an exit strategy and while undermining long-term prospects for peace, Dante's Inferno seems more appropriate than even the harsher words.
Taxpayers in Kentucky have paid $4 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
1,105,865 People with Health Care OR
3,228,992 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
106,274 Public Safety Officers OR
68,725 Music and Arts Teachers OR
616,259 Scholarships for University Students OR
309 New Elementary Schools OR
An Illegal Ruler heard UnGodly Evil Voices in his head telling him to go to War, and so the Nation, Our Country launched an Illegal War based on Lies of This Regime. Millions have been killed and been Wounded and had their lives Altered Forever. The Damage is Immeasurable. Our Government and Leadership assisted,enabled and enacted this Evil Plan, and it is Time to End 5 years of Hell.
Five years in Iraq.
That's 1,825 days since "Shock and Awe" lit up the skies above Baghdad, all of which was captured live and in living color by unblinking CNN cameras with unobstructed views of the carnage.
Though I hadn't read the NIE—the National Intelligence Estimate, I knew two things: Saddam Hussein had had nothing to do with 9/11, and there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Hans Blix, remember, had been searching in vain for months, and despite the best of clues from U.S. intelligence, had found nothing.
With the blind following of the Bush administration’s path into crisis for this nation, it’s time Gallegly is replaced.
Attend this peaceful demonstration today to show your support for ending the Iraq war, and meet Mary Pallant.
I don't have answers or explanations for the Iraq war. I am not a soldier and have never fired a weapon. I don't understand how violence and killing can solve humanity's problems.
I only have questions, many, many questions:
Can you believe that five years have past since the start of the Iraqi war?
Do you remember what you were doing?
Do you have the same job?
Has your life improved due to this war?
How many scandals has the Bush Administration weathered since the start of the war?
How many limbs have been lost?
And just think, if John McCain gets elected we might continue this crazy funfest for ninety-five more years (or was that 995?).
I was a naïve teenager when my mother left the VA for work in public health. I certainly didn’t understand the war, the aftermath, the loss, the grief, the pain. I remember once my mother talking in hushed tones with my stepfather about how glad she was my brother was practically blind without his glasses. It meant that he’d never have to serve on the front lines. I didn’t get what she meant then.
Bush’s Iraq War is now five years old.He and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell dragged us into it on a leash of lies. One of those duplicitous links was acknowledged by the Pentagon last week when it came out with a report showing no connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. The other whopper was about those elusive weapons of mass destruction.
There is an awful lot of heat being generated around the intertubes regarding the Iraq war. I would encourage anyone browsing through the news to apply a very simple test when considering who should or should not be taken seriously while pontificating on the situation we face in Iraq today.
Eternal Spirit
Earth-Maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
source of all that is and that shall be,
The numbers of refugees inside and outside Iraq total between 2 million and 4 million, many of them living desperate and dreadful lives in refugee camps. The countries which admitted them do not have endless resources to care for them. We should be helping those countries more than we are now.
We writers would all be incredibly lucky to ever write anything with a fraction of the chilling beauty, complexity of thought and truthfulness of this speech that Obama wrote himself, from the heart, which he, unlike some other politicians, apparently actually has.
Ik ben altijd een hevige tegenstander van de oorlog in Irak geweest. Het verhaaltje over de massavernietigingswapens van Saddam, ik heb het nooit geloofd.
There's no point in handwringing and bemoaning the fact that nobody listened to Winston Churchill, but what else can we do? It's all a big horrible mess. And, at this point, whatever we do can only make things worse. For some time now we have been part of the problem in Iraq, not part of the solution. But if we withdraw, the place will further descend into civil war and more people will die. If we stay, we continue to be the focus of the ire of the Iraqi people and all of us, Western and Iraqi, continue to die.
Here's a question that is never asked on TV, or on the front pages of newspapers. If the Authorization to Use Military Force was granted to Bush so that he could use it as leverage at the U.N. against Iraq to allow weapons inspectors back into Iraq, why did he invade Iraq after weapons inspectors were back in Iraq and actively looking for the "Weapons Of Mass Destruction"? {with comix!}
If you ever have the misfortune to encounter one of the few remaining supporters of the invasion of Iraq please draw their attention to the Commons motion of 18 March 2003 (see below).
Ask them why there is no reference to any of the justifications now being put forward for the invasion: fighting terrorism, deposing Saddam Hussain or bringing democracy to Iraq.
