$4 BILLION per month in Iraq!! Just think where that $ could be spent here

[CMT]

Why is it that the GOP can justify spending $4 billion per month to occupy Iraq but if any kind of money is needed for domestic improvements such as for education, providing health care to the uninsured, helping lift people out of poverty, ect they can always come up with a long list of reasons why we shouldn't "waste" our tax dollars helping build a better America??

$4 billion per mont--$48 billion per year--almost $100 billion over two years--yeah, this will be a campaign issue, and it should be.

[indepat]

1. Hundreds of billions for defense (invasion and occupation to secure oil

fields), but not an extra penny for tribute (first-responder needs)?

[midem]

2. Well,

could we spend it on schools? no. Roads? no. Health care? no. this administration will just spend it on war and hope the voters don't notice.

[amberdisc]

3. The price of Empire! n/t

:puke:

[DEM FAN]

4. How About Spending That Money To Getting Elections Right Here In The

U.S. I Like That Idea.

[waywest]

5. Spending within our borders doesn't help Carlyle Corp.

So the "really expensive" war (we all know how expensive they can be) disguises the transfer of funds to people in the BUSINESS of war.

[soothsayer]

6. my thoughts exactly

they'd find some way to enrich the BFEE with those billions and would NEVER consider spending it on progams you or I would like to see.