How much is too much?

Just a thought: By the end of this year the Iraq invasion and occupation will have cost American taxpayers $500 billion dollars. Iraq’s pre-war population was 25 million. Now millions have fled the country but had the Bush admstration just paid the Iraqis for peace instead of invading and occupying, the U.S. (at the present spending limit which is expected to go well over $1 trillion dollars) could have paid every man, woman and child (at their pre-war population) $20,000 EACH.

Do you know how much money $20,000 American dollars is in Iraq?

By the way, what we have already spent in Iraq has saddled each and every American man, woman and child with a debt of $1670 EACH - double that number for a more realistic ultimate debt. Be sure not to forget interest because with the Bush tax handouts for the wealthy we’re borrowing all that money.

Your share = $3330

You may not know an American soldier or Iraqi who has been killed during this occupation but if your family is average size, your household debt for money spent in Iraq is well over $13,000 dollars.

Couldn’t you have spent that very real money a little better than for the demolition of a country?

Washington Post Wants Us to Believe the Story is the “Other” Protestors

When all of the polls have finally confirmed that the overwhelming sentiment is against the Iraq occupation and after 4 long and deadly violent years the mainstream press finally starts giving some real attention to the anti-occupation movement. Then the Washington Post produces an article like this. This is a piece of garbage.

Is the intention of this article to have us believe that those protesting the occupation, those attempting to remove our soldiers from a untenably violent and chaotic situation don’t support the troops when the (fiction) writer contends that those protesting “stood in solidarity with U.S. troops?” The truth of the matter is that the polls tell us that that the overwhelmingly majority of the soldiers in Iraq don’t support the illegal occupation and want our forces to withdraw immediately. That’s a fact.

But what about critical reporting? Why not ask how many of these supposed protestors actually served in Iraq or when was their last tour? Were they involved in the initial invasion or have these protestors been to Iraq recently? Are the alleged protestors a part of the 90% of the active troops that still erroneously believe that the Iraq invasion and occupation is in response to Iraq’s involvement in 9/11? Or how about asking who paid for the buses for them to get to Washington and who organized it? I’ll bet it was a group that was politically or economically motivated.

How about asking how many anti-occupation protestors were there? What did they have to say? What groups did they represent and were they representing the truth? And how about asking whether or not they represented American values?

In an ideal article the author would ask the rhetorical question, do these pro-occupation protestors realize that the people that they’re calling “terrorists” are actually the Iraqi people whose country has just been destroyed by an illegally invading and occupying force? Shouldn’t the Iraqi’s voices be heard? With all the blood that they’ve shed, shouldn’t they have a say?

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