Now We're Spending Twice as Much to Dig Ourselves Even Deeper in a Hole

It's already been established that attacking Iraq after 9/11 was about as smart as if we had declared war on Mexico after Pearl Harbor. Here's how it's going...

Link--A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year...

And this...

Reuters--A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training centre and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.

This editorial from the Palm Beach Post (my hometown paper) pretty much sums it up...

"It's hard to see how the Republicans can take any comfort in being right.If the Iraq War is as important to the war on terror as they say, President Bush's failure to win the war in Iraq - or even to define "win" - is that much worse."

President Bush says we're engaging in "finger-pointing." Hey, if a drunk driver slams into somebody, is it finger pointing to say he did wrong? Maybe we should take away his keys for awhile. What do you think?

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