Two Hundred Ten Billion Dollars

The invasion of Iraq has cost U.S. taxpayers and that cost is rising at a rate of $6,000,000,000.00 each month. Let's forget about WMDs and any fairy tales about a connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. We have torn apart and are now rebuilding a country. This is happening under the watch (and I use the term loosely) of a president (and I use the term usely) who promised no nation building.

After being pitched one reason after the other for this war, one that the administration seems to have settled on is that we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here. Imagine the dent that could have been put in terrorism if we had spent $210,000,000,000.00 going after Osama bin Ladn and al-Qaeda. Instead, we're mired down in street fighting and have committed ourselves to rebuilding Iraq. No one will ever convince me that Republicans care about the Iraqi people any more than they care about their own.