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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Any questions?
Posted by Jill | 9:25 PM
The stimulus bill in perspective:


Now someone please tell me why the Iraq War, a war sold to us with lies, a war in which billions of dollars disappeared and more billions went to a company so corrupt it electrocuted and poisoned American troops, is a justifiable expense but a package to get people working again is not.

I mean other than because you want the economy to fail to enable some kind of grand Republican restoration in 2010, that is.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Came via Lisa at "That's Why..." This is veeeeeeeeeery helpful.... We should be shouting this across the country!!!!!!!
2/9/09, 1:07 PM  
Blogger Jonah said...
Okay, i'll take a shot...perhaps because "provid{ing} for the common defence" is actually a Constitutionally based function of the government, not misapprorpiating billions of taxpayer money for pet projects.

I know this is porbably a waste of pixels, but the war was not based on lies, but incorrect intelligence, accumulated not just by the US but by the intelligence agencies of numerous countries. Furthermore, WMD was never the sole justification for the war...it astonishes me that many of the same people crying out for US intervention in the Sudan on humanitarian grounds, refues to acknowledge the humanitarian justifications given for the Iraq war.

Finally, I find it interesting that you exclude the cost of the Afghanistan war, despite the fact that it has lasted longer than the war in Iraq, is proceeding much more tenuosly than Iraq, and is still far from certain to ever be remotely the success in Iraq has been. Yes there have been mistakes made in Iraq (and I acknowledge that you would argue the biggest was invadin it in the first place). The fact remains that Democrats in Congress based their decision to support the war on the same flawed intelligence the Administration used.

A much better argument can be made by those opposed to Iraq that it was not necessary to our security--not that I agree, but at least there you have some ability to make valid ideological arguments. But the tired old "Bush lied, people died" just ain't so.
2/9/09, 3:17 PM  
Blogger Annette said...
Great Job.. Love that chart.
2/9/09, 9:47 PM  
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