Joe Humble said:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050821/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc
Quote:
"I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're
spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq)," said Hagel."
Hagel is Chuck Hagel, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a US Senator
from Nebraska. Man, one billion a week and that is the estimate from
the party waging the war. One has to wonder if the actual pricetag is
even higher. The total amount spent is beginning to stagger the
imagination. In some ways it almost stops making sense because the
amount spent on the war will soon be enough to have rebuilt, from
scratch, nearly every major city in Iraq with modern state-of-the-art
construction.
Quoted message said:It is a really, really big number.
Yup. Almost $150 million desperately need taxpayer
dollars per DAY. I recall a few years back there was huge
debate about spending $200 million to keep AMTRACK alive.
It was all over the news, too much money, taxpayers
can't afford it, blah, blah, etc...
Well, that's less than two days worth of terrorizing and
killing Iraqis and U.S. soldiers.
Ever wonder who benefits from the 150 MILLION
U.S. taxpayer dollars spent each DAY in Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
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http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/
http://counterpunch.org/
http://responsiblewealth.org/
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/pol/80315675.html
In September and October 2003, McClellan said he had spoken
directly with Rove about the matter and that "he was not
involved" in leaking Plame's identity to the news media.
McClellan said at the time: "The president knows that Karl
Rove wasn't involved," "It was a ridiculous suggestion"
and "It's not true."
Yet another in the endless stirng of bu$h's lies.
"They are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to
take... men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons
who are capable of any atrocity... they respect no laws of
warfare or morality."
-bu$h describing his own illegal invasion of Iraq.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm
"Brutal and sadistic? By what girly-man standards? Compared
to how Saddam treated his prisoners, a bit of humiliation was
a walk in the park. AFAIK, No one died or even lost any blood."
-Albert Nurick, a usenet kook and blatant liar, on the rape,
torture and murder at bu$h's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0512-10.htm
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them. And then
he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
-- George W. Bush
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the
will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the
Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-- Adolf [censored]
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...
