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TAXES, WAR & PATRIOTIC PROPAGANDA 04.05.05

It's not going to ease anyone's tax blow, but the average cost per taxpayer/citizen in the US for the War in Iraq is $526 (as of 03.29.05). Factoids we can probably live without, but they are amusing. The War in Iraq has cost the tax-paying citizens of Danbury, Connecticut about $76,134,130. That's just one city! The rest of the math… $159,614,702,500. That's SPENT money, not appropriated. And, that's borrowed money because we didn't have that much hanging around.

"But, Dubya, what's that problem with Social Security again?"

Newest Department of Defense Extravaganza: (Link) Don't get me wrong. I support our Troops, and respect the military service men and women stationed around the world beyond measure. And, I remember them in my prayers daily. I do, however, question the motives, logic and policies of those in Washington. Click the link (underlined above) and you'll get some warm fuzzies from the propaganda.

It's what you don't see from the DoD that scares me: 1,530 US Casualties, 87 UK and 90 Coalition Forces; 11,442 US Wounded, and 17,248 Iraqi Civilian Casualties. Nowadays the television commercials for military service make it look like it's an xBox game. War is not so simple, and the real cost is not about dollars.

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