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- jeremyduffy, on 03/10/2008, -7/+325That's not really fair. You have to consider the cost of the war versus the benefits it provided. First, there's.... uh....
- drmangrum, on 03/10/2008, -9/+248I really get tired of seeing "Things we could have done with the extra $1 trillion." IT WASN'T EXTRA. It's money we don't have. Bush has ROBBED the American people, for the next 4 or 5 decades at least, of their prosperity. Him spending money money we don't really have != having extra cash.
- smacksaw, on 03/10/2008, -3/+237For 3 trillion dollars, I think Saddam would have just sold it to us.
- computrius, on 03/10/2008, -6/+180So, they tried to impeach clinton for cheating on his wife... Bush robs the american people of their prosperity for 4 or 5 decades on a war in which he lied about constantly from the beginning.. But that DOESNT warrent impeachment? Have I missed something here?
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -12/+138I read an article today that claims Iraq has generated over $100 billion in oil revenue since the beginning of 2007 and less than $4 billion of that has been spent on reconstruction and services to improve quality of life for it's citizens... so yes, the war will pay for itself if you're an Iraqi official.
- brie987, on 03/10/2008, -3/+96Couldn't we have just given Iraq all the fast food restaurants and fructose syrup and have them kill themselves? its working so well for us here at home.
- Antwan718, on 03/10/2008, -6/+87Halaburton Co. is much wealthier, the average American citizen is being robbed of their anything anda oh yea, i secretly CC every email i send to the NSA.
I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge... And the fact that most of the population is blindly beliving their *****. - Thing2, on 03/10/2008, -6/+78What's worse is that people actually believed all the rhetoric they spewed - I mean, I remember talking to my neighbors and friends - and the administration during the leadup to the war could have told them that fluffy clouds will pop up all over Iraq and those people would have believed it.
Why should politicians garner that much trust? Why did people put so much trust in this administration? I never understood why anyone would trust a politician implicably....it's their job to lie to you and not tell you the truth - as they think you can't handle the truth. - Apokalyps2547, on 03/10/2008, -5/+73"Regime Change"
Wait... there's now a Parlament. Can we leave now?
"To protect the Kurds"
Yeah, we're doing a bang-up job. We're letting TURKEY kill them instead.
"Stability"
In the middle-east? Aaahahahahaha! - mediaspree, on 03/10/2008, -9/+77What the hell are we still doing there?
- wonderworm, on 03/10/2008, -6/+53I remember so clearly Cheney and company hitting meet the press in 2002 and talking about how the Iraq war would be less than 50 Billion and that it was merely a loan that would be paid back by the Iraqis once their oil was up and running again?
Now 2.5 Trillion dollars later, and oil at a 350% higher price, it seems the entire war was just Cheney fullfilling a promise to make all his Haliburton, War and Oil company buddies rich. What a f_cking scam on the American people. Don't fall for the continued scam as they ramp up the GOP FEAR machine to keep that war running into perpetuity. PS. Did you guys know that "Al Qaeda" as a "global network of terror" is a complete fabrication. Yep, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Co just made the whole organization up. Just imaginary lies like WMD's in Iraq, or terrorist training camps in Iraq, or remember those MOBILE WMD diesel trucks they showed pictures of and Bin Laden's massive, complex mountain fortresses...........all lies and pure treason against America of course.
http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives ...
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/79059
Please don't let their lies affect you anymore. Vote Barack in November and let's toss these guys in jail where they belong. - schure1, on 03/10/2008, -3/+47I love the part about being able to provide health care for half a billion kids or fund social security for the next 50 freakin years.
Just imagine all of the other things that we could have used that money for to bring economic stability and peace to the world ... - KraftDinner101, on 03/10/2008, -1/+44It's to give perspective. Some people won't really listen to what you have to say unless you give them some sort of analogy for perspective.
- Lanefair, on 03/10/2008, -3/+43$4000 a second. America, I feel sick for you.
- uptwolait, on 03/10/2008, -2/+41I laughed till I cried. Then I just cried and cried.
- jezsik, on 03/10/2008, -1/+40Wolfowitz congressional testimony, March 27, 2003: "There's a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
- Rutje, on 03/10/2008, -5/+43they forgot the casualties...
- mesostinky, on 03/10/2008, -1/+38It's well known that Saddam was willing to deal his way out of going to war with us. The neodicks just had to have another foothold in the middle East. You know, just in case Israel gets obliterated or something.
This all could have been easily avoided. - embeemb, on 03/10/2008, -27/+63Brilliant. Dugg! Thanks for sharing!
- Myonosken, on 03/10/2008, -8/+44Sorry if reading was too tricky for you. Garfield a better match for you?
- mesostinky, on 03/10/2008, -6/+42Ah yes, a well know tactic. Blame the Clintons as if somehow it makes what Bush is doing OK.
You FAIL. - mrjah, on 03/10/2008, -2/+37Let's see:
1) Pretend to connect 9/11 with Hussein in the first sentence. Check.
2) Hint at the idea of using Iraq to appease al Qaeda, without being brave enough to come out and say it. That worked out well. Check.
3) Pretend that Bush cared about the Kurds in Turkey. Iraq was a humanitarian venture for Turkey! Check.
4) Craft a fairy tale in which it's okay for the President to lie to the American public. Check.
5) Replace the phrase "sensible patriots" with "whining politically-correct 'activists'" whenever possible. Check.
6) Reduce the death and suffering of millions to rhetoric about "great real estate." Check.
7) Latch onto the incredibly poor idea of using Vietnam's carnage to make Iraq seem less senseless. Check.
8) Pretend our "new neighbors" are doing anything other than laughing as we waste our military resources in a pointless elective war. Check.
9) Use anecdotes to justify historical "what-ifs" that, to any sensible person, obviously would have been even more idiotic than Bush's War. Check.
10) Accidentally reveal the dangerous, thoughtless mindset of many (by no means all) military minds when it comes to war and its effects. Check.
11) Appeal to the incredible performance of Our Men Over There, accidentally underscoring just how impossible the task in Iraq actually is. Check.
12) Pretend that training (five years and counting, now) will win a war of ideology. Check.
13) Conclude by questioning the patriotism of people who don't blindly fall into line behind the most crooked President of modern times. Check.
Written like a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool shill. Well done, sir. You almost seem to believe the crap you have typed here. - N3M3515, on 03/10/2008, -3/+37And more than likely pays US officials as well.
- nirav72, on 03/10/2008, -1/+32For 3 trillion dollars, almost any enemy would have given up and went home to never bother us again.
- planes, on 03/10/2008, -0/+31I wonder if there will be anything about the Iraq War in the new $500 million Bush Library? There should be room ... you know, right next to that copy of "My Pet Goat".
- nextTopModel, on 03/10/2008, -9/+37... so no weapons of mass destruction, what are you still fighting for?
- computrius, on 03/10/2008, -1/+28Maybe so.. But that still doesnt even begin to compare to what bush has done and lied about.
- 1jaxstate1, on 03/10/2008, -6/+32Four grand a second. Wow....I mean....just wow.
- Apokalyps2547, on 03/10/2008, -5/+30Sanctions aren't war, sanctions are sanctions.
- mediaspree, on 03/10/2008, -1/+26I'm on your side, but was Saddam really bothering us?
- WasabiBomb, on 03/10/2008, -0/+24You must be, because as far as I can tell everyone here is bitching because Bush and company started the war in the first place.
- Thing2, on 03/10/2008, -3/+27Sad and brilliant.
- Dumbledorito, on 03/10/2008, -0/+23Well, one of Bush's delusions is that "freedom" is a natural state for people. He assumed that if you topple a dictator, you'd get "freedom" out of it, that democracy would gush from every corner. This led to about as much planning for the post-Saddam era by the White House as they devoted to my last birthday party.
Freedom, as it is defined in most cases, requires a massive amount of planning and energy to work, but that didn't seem to fit with the administration's ideology, and the result has been almost a case study in the application of fecal matter to air-flow devices. - Acewrap, on 03/10/2008, -1/+24Do you ever get tired of trolling?
- mediaspree, on 03/10/2008, -0/+23And the job we started was....to get rid of the weapons of mass destruction? OK, check. now what.
- nbcaffeine, on 03/10/2008, -2/+25That'll be $12,000, please.
- Acewrap, on 03/10/2008, -0/+22I know of no one that had asked for a kinder gentler war. There were those of us saying that Iraq is not a threat and stay on focus in Afghanistan, but no kinder or gentler. Stop putting words in people's mouths.
- DangerCollie, on 03/10/2008, -1/+23Just by way of reminder, we had a budget surplus when the Supreme Court installed Bush. Job one for him was giving away the surplus to people who didn't need the money. Not funding social security, not providing health care to the poor and needy, not investing in renewable energy, none of that. The first official act of "compassionate conservatism" was lining the pockets of the wealthy.
Hypocrites one and all. - Spektr4, on 03/10/2008, -0/+22Just imagine, a fraction of that money could've been spent in investment and rebuilding of our energy infrastructure, to get us off foreign oil. And that would've reaped dividends for years to come.
You know what's ***** up? If a politician said, hey we're going to borrow a trillion bucks to feed and clothe and educate all of Africa, the American people wouldn't stand for it. But apparently we're fine spending that money, if it means blowing people to pieces. Sad reflection on humanity. - wonderworm, on 03/10/2008, -1/+22This is why we are still there.
Without a war, the GOP cannot create enough fear to miantain their power hold over the country so they need this war and future wars to maintain political control.
Its really that simply. The Neo Conservatives have again figured out that wars and scary make believe terrorist networks ensure that granny and soccer mom vote for them. Unfortunately, fear is a stronger emotion than logic, but far more stupid. - N3M3515, on 03/10/2008, -1/+22Sad part is your working 3 months out of every year for the government and that money you give them they spend on occupying Iraq. And the good Dr.mangrum has a very good point they are borrowing even more money forcing our children and our children's children into paying it back.
- leftyslament, on 03/10/2008, -2/+23You may be okay with imperialism, but I have a feeling there are a million dead Iraqis who might disagree with you.
- mediaspree, on 03/10/2008, -0/+20one might call it "Grand"
- theaceoffire, on 03/10/2008, -1/+21We are ALREADY blamed by the rest of the world, and they are ALREADY turning on each other.
Lets get the hell out. - vagabondgr, on 03/10/2008, -0/+19The canyon is still 3/5 empty. Now it's our chance to fill it up. McCain for president.
- yohnstoppable, on 03/10/2008, -2/+21That's enough $1 bills to fill the grand canyon 2/5 of the way up
I know that doesn't sound very impressive, but keep in mind it is a VERY big canyon - jstone, on 03/10/2008, -1/+20That's the sad part. A lot of people are fine when the government spends their money on weapons and war, but if the government tries to institute national healthcare or anything of that sort the population gets all up-in-arms and claims that the government is stealing their money.
- swrostmore, on 03/10/2008, -3/+21It was explicitly mentioned by Donald Rumsfeld. That is the reference the comic is making.
- theaceoffire, on 03/10/2008, -1/+19Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of Elderberries.
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