Monday, December 27, 2004
A Stained, Blue Dress from Gap and "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
Our money, our children,brothers,sisters, parents,and friends
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton’s peccadilloes cost us $33,555,000
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, survived the impeachment proceedings but the records of his two-term presidency will forever be overshadowed by his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
Costs of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (make me gag every time I come across the words):
In human terms, as of December 22, 2004
U.S. Soldiers dead: 1329
Injured: 10,041
The numbers are from global security.org
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq/casualties.htm
Now look at the dollar figures.
NPR Morning Edition
“December 16, 2004: The Congressional Budget Office projects that the cost of the war in Iraq could surpass $80 billion in fiscal 2005. That would send total expenditures for the war past $200 billion. The estimated price tag for the conflict has steadily escalated”
George W. Bush, who took the nation to war, was reelected to serve a second term !
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
----Albert Camus (1913-1960, Winner of 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature)
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton’s peccadilloes cost us $33,555,000
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, survived the impeachment proceedings but the records of his two-term presidency will forever be overshadowed by his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
Costs of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (make me gag every time I come across the words):
In human terms, as of December 22, 2004
U.S. Soldiers dead: 1329
Injured: 10,041
The numbers are from global security.org
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq/casualties.htm
Now look at the dollar figures.
NPR Morning Edition
“December 16, 2004: The Congressional Budget Office projects that the cost of the war in Iraq could surpass $80 billion in fiscal 2005. That would send total expenditures for the war past $200 billion. The estimated price tag for the conflict has steadily escalated”
$200,000,000,000 and the end is not in sight
George W. Bush, who took the nation to war, was reelected to serve a second term !
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
----Albert Camus (1913-1960, Winner of 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature)
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I found it strange that you did not include the estimated number of Iraqis dead. That would have made your poitn even stronger.
I have published numerous posts about Iraqi casualties, especially about deaths of innocent civilians.
But nothing changes. Now it is Afghanistan where the civilian population -- regardless of where
their allegiance lies -- is paying a price. According to reports, drones have been successful in the war against terror. Perhaps so. The civilian casualties are described by us as 'collateral damage'.
On the other side of the coin are the surviving civilians who have lost family members and friends. One wonders how many of them turn out to be suicide bombers.
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But nothing changes. Now it is Afghanistan where the civilian population -- regardless of where
their allegiance lies -- is paying a price. According to reports, drones have been successful in the war against terror. Perhaps so. The civilian casualties are described by us as 'collateral damage'.
On the other side of the coin are the surviving civilians who have lost family members and friends. One wonders how many of them turn out to be suicide bombers.
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