MSNBC ran a minor article on this today, which you can read here. Curiously, today's article estmates the cost of the war to be $712 billion, while the 2007 cartoon above estimated it to be (at that time) more than $1.3 trillion. Fuzzy math at its best. Either way, that would buy a lot of healthcare.
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So what have we gained? Well, the anti-war sentiment was strong enough to put Democrats in the White House and in control of both houses of Congress. This has caused the GOP to reduce the alphabet to 25 letters, eliminating Dubya from their vocabulary entirely.
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Iran is sufficiently spooked by our invasion-without-justification mentality to get seriously working on building/acquiring nuclear weapons. Their rationale appears to be "You certainly have the capability of invading and occupying us without cause, but if you do, we'll at least make some places glow in the dark." Hard to argue with that logic.
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The body bags are now coming from Afghanistan (which we've been occupying for nine years now) instead of Iraq. We are of course nowhere close to winning either war because the entire populations of both countries hate our guts.
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China now owns us (how do you think Dubya funded two wars without raising taxes?), and is getting quite tired of us acting like they need to do what we say. Look for us to start licking their boots, just as we do to the Saudis.
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And all the while, we're really no closer to withdrawing from either country. Thus a whole generation of Muslim youth is turning to radical clerics who tell them they will have virgins galore in Heaven if they become suicide bombers and strike a blow against the tyrannical forces illegally occupying Muslim soil.
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So Happy 7th-Year Anniversary, America! You will surely reap the economic consequences of your decade of foolishness. Let us hope military consequences don't come down on our heads as well.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Happy Anniversary !
It was seven years and two presidents ago that we invaded Iraq. Under known-to-be-false pretenses, and without any direct acts of war by Saddam and company.
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MSNBC ran a minor article on this today, which you can read here. Curiously, today's article estmates the cost of the war to be $712 billion, while the 2007 cartoon above estimated it to be (at that time) more than $1.3 trillion. Fuzzy math at its best. Either way, that would buy a lot of healthcare.
.
So what have we gained? Well, the anti-war sentiment was strong enough to put Democrats in the White House and in control of both houses of Congress. This has caused the GOP to reduce the alphabet to 25 letters, eliminating Dubya from their vocabulary entirely.
.
Iran is sufficiently spooked by our invasion-without-justification mentality to get seriously working on building/acquiring nuclear weapons. Their rationale appears to be "You certainly have the capability of invading and occupying us without cause, but if you do, we'll at least make some places glow in the dark." Hard to argue with that logic.
.
The body bags are now coming from Afghanistan (which we've been occupying for nine years now) instead of Iraq. We are of course nowhere close to winning either war because the entire populations of both countries hate our guts.
.
China now owns us (how do you think Dubya funded two wars without raising taxes?), and is getting quite tired of us acting like they need to do what we say. Look for us to start licking their boots, just as we do to the Saudis.
.
And all the while, we're really no closer to withdrawing from either country. Thus a whole generation of Muslim youth is turning to radical clerics who tell them they will have virgins galore in Heaven if they become suicide bombers and strike a blow against the tyrannical forces illegally occupying Muslim soil.
.
So Happy 7th-Year Anniversary, America! You will surely reap the economic consequences of your decade of foolishness. Let us hope military consequences don't come down on our heads as well.
MSNBC ran a minor article on this today, which you can read here. Curiously, today's article estmates the cost of the war to be $712 billion, while the 2007 cartoon above estimated it to be (at that time) more than $1.3 trillion. Fuzzy math at its best. Either way, that would buy a lot of healthcare.
.
So what have we gained? Well, the anti-war sentiment was strong enough to put Democrats in the White House and in control of both houses of Congress. This has caused the GOP to reduce the alphabet to 25 letters, eliminating Dubya from their vocabulary entirely.
.
Iran is sufficiently spooked by our invasion-without-justification mentality to get seriously working on building/acquiring nuclear weapons. Their rationale appears to be "You certainly have the capability of invading and occupying us without cause, but if you do, we'll at least make some places glow in the dark." Hard to argue with that logic.
.
The body bags are now coming from Afghanistan (which we've been occupying for nine years now) instead of Iraq. We are of course nowhere close to winning either war because the entire populations of both countries hate our guts.
.
China now owns us (how do you think Dubya funded two wars without raising taxes?), and is getting quite tired of us acting like they need to do what we say. Look for us to start licking their boots, just as we do to the Saudis.
.
And all the while, we're really no closer to withdrawing from either country. Thus a whole generation of Muslim youth is turning to radical clerics who tell them they will have virgins galore in Heaven if they become suicide bombers and strike a blow against the tyrannical forces illegally occupying Muslim soil.
.
So Happy 7th-Year Anniversary, America! You will surely reap the economic consequences of your decade of foolishness. Let us hope military consequences don't come down on our heads as well.
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