Iraq: Dumb War

"We are spending $8 billion a month in Iraq. That's $2 billion each week, $267 million each day, or $11 million each hour. For what we spend in three weeks, we could make needed improvements in order to properly secure our public transportation systems. For what we spend in five days, we could put radiation detectors in all of our ports. And for two days in Iraq, we could screen all air cargo."
-- Howard Dean

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• You are waging a war at the cost of $100,000 a minute. Over $320 billion gone. Poof.
  
• You have cost 2500 American lives.
• You have cost more than 100,000 Iraqi lives.
  
• You went in saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. When it was proven beyond doubt that that was not the case, you invented a few new missions. You fabricated intelligence before the mission, you fabricated the mission statement after the early one went awry on you.
  
• Terrorist organizations are stronger not weaker today. They have continued to strike with an eery regularity, in different parts of the world, including India.
  
• You started on the wrong foot. War is not a weapon of first resort.
  
• You threatened to use nuclear weapons against Iran. That thought should not even cross the mind.
  
• There was miscalculation after miscalculation after miscalculation.
  
• Saddam was accused of costing 100,000 Iraqi lives. Bush did the same thing.
  
• Big Defense is making money. Poor kids are losing lives.
  
• You destroy the infrastructure. That attack costs you big money. The destroyed infrastructure is big money. And then you profess to rebuild some of it through no-bid contracts to your cronie companies that get paid way more than the local market price. Money sense? Harvard MBA?
  
• Now there is talk of civil war. You destroy a state structure in its entirety. And create a vacuum. And the replacement is not to be seen. No wonder.
  
• Do the Iraqis see freedom? Or do they feel occupation?
  
• Why is the Arab street so opposed to the offensive in Lebanon, to the war in Iraq? Are hundreds of millions of Arabs dumb, and primitive and wrong? Or is it just Bush who is so?
• The war has made worse the anti-Arab racism in America. Is that meant as a fodder to the right wing?
  

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In The News

Sen. Barack Obama Says Iraq Is "A Dumb War" All Headline News sharp criticism of the Bush administration and Congress ..... Iraq is, "A dumb war. We haven't thought it through." .... enemies in Iran and North Korea, along with terrorist groups bent on doing the United States harm, are getting stronger while the U.S. is bogged down in Iraq. ..... chastised Democrats who are always opposed to war, even when force is necessary. In cases like World War II and, more recently, removing the Taliban government of Afghanistan, war can be the only option, with Obama saying, "There are real enemies out there and we have to face them." ..... expressed opposition of eliminating the tax on estates altogether. .... "After $7 million, the family farm is going to be OK. That's my sense," Obama said..... the single most important factor in job creation is education. ..... "A high school education doesn't cut it anymore."
The war in Iraq is a “dumb war,” Think Progress, DC
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Bush gives new reason for Iraq war - The Boston Globe President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. ...... Bush compared his resolve to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's in the 1940s and said America's mission in Iraq is to turn it into a democratic ally just as the United States did with Japan after its 1945 surrender........ The speech was Bush's third in just over a week defending his Iraq policies, as the White House scrambles to counter growing public concern about the war. But the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast drew attention away ....... the slightly larger protests that Bush now encounters everywhere he goes ..... ''If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks," Bush said. ''They'd seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition."

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