i was just reading the news and i saw a little article wherein it was revealed that the total cost, in u.s taxpayers dollars, of the war in iraq thus far is:
$585,000,000,000.00
five hundred and eighty five billion dollars.
585 billion dollars.
i want to scream.
do you know what could’ve been done with that money?
do you know how long it’s going to take the united states to repay our national debt?
585 billion dollars to wage a war that was based on falsehoods and deceptions.
to reiterate:
there were no weapons of mass destruction
there was no relationship between iraq and 9-11
there was no relationship between saddam hussein and al qaeda
why aren’t americans rioting on the streets?
thousands of dead american soldiers.
tens of thousands of maimed and wounded american soldiers.
almost $600 billion dollars spent so far.
where’s the outrage?
are americans so utterly complacent and numb and apathetic that they can’t see that their future is being mortgaged by this war?
the bush administration have created an unspeakably huge and expensive monster, and no one seems to care.
ok, america, when you can’t send your kids to college, and when you can’t afford health care, and when unemployment is at 15%, and when public schools are falling apart, and when police and fire departments can’t respond to crimes and fires, and when your kids are being drafted, you can’t complain, cos you voted for these idiots and you didn’t complain when they spent $600 billion dollars of your money on a war that was based on falsehoods and deceptions from the beginning.
and where are the democrats in all of this?
the democrats should be renamed the ‘vichy party’.
and if you don’t know what that means that’s cos you’ve been failed by a 3rd rate american education that’s only going to get worse, because we all heard gw say that he’s going to cut billions from non-military programs in the coming years.
we are paying for this war with our future. and not just our future but our childrens future.
it’s disgusting, and it’s doubly disgusting because no one in america seems to care that their country is being ruined and made bankrupt by inept and corrupt republicans and their accomodating vichy democrat friends in d.c.
-moby