I heard a joke the other day. It seems that Bush and the Pope were in a boat when the Pope's hat flew off. One of the secret service agents was getting ready to dive into the water to retrieve the hat when Bush stopped him. Bush calmly got out of the boat, walked on the water and retrieved the Pope's hat. The Pope was inpressed. The next day's headline in the (insert favorite liberal newspaper name here) was Bush Can't Swim
OK why is this joke relevant? On the front page of Thursday's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation was the headline War costs rocket and right below that was $20 billion and counting for U.S. Here is the article.
Washington --- The United States has spent about $20 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, and probably will spend about $2 billion a month more in Iraq through much of 2003, a top Pentagon official said Wednesday.
OK I admit it. I'm confused. Here's a war that leftists like Nancy Pelosi claim will cost $100 billion and we did it for $20 billion down and $2 billion a month and this is bad news? Someone help me out here.
Not included in the estimate, according to analysts, are the costs of bringing U.S. troops home.
Which will actually decrease the $2 billion a month cost. I mean, Bush asked Congress for $70 to $80 billion to fight the war and we did it for $20 billion which is less than Nancy Pelosi's $100 billion and this is War costs rocket?
After that ominous start, the article actually does go positive. And
Bush called for an end to U.N. economic sanctions on Iraq, imposed after the country's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Administration officials said the United States would submit a U.N. resolution to that effect.
France is against removing the sanctions because Iraq may have weapons of mass destruction although France was originally against the sanctions because France didn't think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Hello!
And, oh yeah, let's get the UN on board. That's all we need.
The Pentagon said the U.S. military death toll rose to 125 --- 107 of those from hostile action. Three people were listed as missing, and 495 as wounded in action.
Where were the thousands of Americans that were supposed to be killed, especially the ones in the street to street urban warfare in Baghdad?
In a separate search, troops discovered what they described as an extensive terrorist training camp south of Baghdad that had been recently abandoned. The compound included 20 buildings on 25 acres and was operated by the Palestine Liberation Front and the Iraqi government, officials said.
But I thought Iraq had no connection to terrorism. First that terrorist camp in northern Iraq and now this? This is Tom Dasshole's and Nancy Pelosi's worst nightmare. But that's all right. Our massive carpet bombing of Iraq must have surely killed over one million innocent Iraqi citizens.
It's a shame that Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have lost their freedom of speech, or they would be telling us all about 'em.
Posted by denny at April 18, 2003 01:09 PM