Apropos of "campaign" finance reform ... The war in Iraq will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers not hundreds of billions of dollars, but an astonishing $2 trillion, and perhaps more. There has been very little in the way of public conversation, even in the presidential campaigns, about the consequences of these costs, which are like a cancer inside the American economy.
You might recall the latest CAP report, which finds that "Iraq is no closer to a sustainable security framework than it was at the start of 2007." Have you seen No End in Sight? |