The Fact Is...

Opponents of the Bush administration’s unnecessary, undeclared and illegal war in Iraq are fond of pointing to the money spent, being spent and forecast for future spending, and listing all the things the money could and should have been spent on. The fact is, people being what we are--and we include Republicans, Democrats, Independents, all adherents of all religions and all races in the category of people. People being what we are, had there been no bogus war, the mega-bucks allocated for the war in Iraq would not have been spent on any of the worthy projects on the Wish List. In the United States, our Congress would never pass a bill for a worthwhile social project carrying a $2 trillion price tag, which is the new estimate for the cost of the Iraq war. Our Congress would never pass a bill for half the cost of the Iraq war even if it funded five social projects. It would never happen. And the reason it would never happen is that the people in the United States (those who vote) would never vote in favor of $2 trillion dollars being spent on ANYTHING unless we were threatened with the imminent demise of the world as we know it. So forget the unreal dreams of what could have been done with the money spent in Iraq. The only way the people in the US would demand that $2 trillion be spent on health care, children, education or on repairing our infrastructure is if the Bush administration threatened us with being destroyed by weapons of mass destruction and mushroom clouds if we didn’t allocate the money for worthy social programs. And hahahahahaha! Who would believe that?