September 24, 2003
Le Bush
Harry Shearer makes the point in his current "Le Blast"
"So now the United States administration says it wildly underestimated
the extent to which the Iraqi infrastructure was damaged by thirty
years of Saddam Hussein. Two points: no mention of the effect the
twelve years of sanctions had on the infrastructure (on the other hand,
the guy did use what money and resources he had to build some swell
palaces..); and two, if our intelligence was so bad it couldn't tell us
about the state of the plumbing and the electric grid, how good could
it be about chemical and biological weapons?"
I would continue by saying that the pentagon wants $87B "reconstruction money" on top of the $75B (cost of war) that they've spent destroying the place. So called "poor planning" kept these numbers secret from the public.
This is insane and it's time to throw the greedy bums out of Washington and the Pentagon.
Posted by John at September 24, 2003 08:11 AM | TrackBack