"Pretty Soon, You're Talking Real Money"

Oyster sums it up:

Saving South Louisiana would be a rounding error in the context of this far-flung project of nation-building Iraq. When it's over, Bush's misadventure will be the most expensive war in American history (save WWII). These are your "fiscal conservatives", America. These are the people who say the budget is "too tight" for Louisiana's needs. These are the people who love it when your blood boils seeing a black man steal a TV in a flooded city, while you remain silent as a trillion tax dollars are dumped into a fractious sandtrap destined for civil war.

He's referring to this article (with a hat tip to Pus Boy) confirming the Pentagon will be asking for an extra $100 billion dollars--on top of a $50 billion dollar appropriation already on the table, on top of previous appropriations totally roughly $300 billion dollars...and these figures don't include the yearly Pentagon operating budget of around $425 billion dollars per year (which, factoring for inflation, has been pretty consistent since the mid 1970's)--for an operation that stands a snowball's chance in Mesopotamian hell of succeeding.

Wingnuts can wax starry-eyed about "democratic miracles" or get all cross-eyed as much as they want, but it won't make a damn bit of difference: they're pissing away the national treasury on a boondoggle that exposes their down-to-the-bone ignorance...not to mention their down-to-the-bone hysteria and paranoia.

I doubt seriously your average 'nut could identify more than three international terrorists by name, much less come up with an effective means by which to counter terrorism itself. Their present "strategery" consists of inciting an insurgency in one of the few Arab/Middle Eastern countries largely devoid of terrorism/terrorists, using the US Military as bait, with copious side dishes of sadism and torture. As a bonus, they're working very hard on establishing an Islamic theocracy while crowing about an election that means...nothing.

And, as an added bonus, these same folks can't so much as deliver food and ice to the Gulf Coast following a storm FORECAST to arrive. Talk about incompetence. But we're supposed to trust these folks with billions more for Operation Bury Our Heads in the Sand? Geez.