Reply #205: O I thought for a moment you were talking about George Bush!

[davekriss]

After all, George Bush lied and misled and deceived us into an unnecessary war that has already cost American's $250+ billion and is likely, in the end, going to cost upwards of $1 to $2 trillion.

Interest rates will rise ... the dollar will decline in value ... as $1 to $2 trillion is shunted off to pay the interest and principle on the borrowed money (and who has money today to buy the vast majority of these bonds?). These trillions otherwise could have been invested to improve American education, or provide healthcare for all. Instead they're gone in a flash over the city of Baghdad, while the owners of our military-industrial machine just go giddy when they count how many dollars each replacement bomb means to them!

How many jobs will be lost because of this redirect of future American funds? Do you count them, too, when passing moral judgement on the spouse of a kidnapped wife of whom you know very little?

Save your indignant tone for George Bush, please, on whom this whole mess can rightly be blamed.