IMPEACH- 500,000,000,000 REASONS

[Jcrowley]

Price tag for war in Iraq on track to top $500 billion
By Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion. That's about ten times more than the Bush administration anticipated before the war started four years ago, and no one can predict how high the tab will go. The $124 billion spending bill that President Bush plans to veto this week includes about $78 billion for Iraq, with the rest earmarked for the war in Afghanistan, veterans' health care and other government programs.

Congressional Democrats and Bush agree that they cannot let their dispute over a withdrawal timetable block the latest cash installment for Iraq. Once that political fight is resolved, Congress can focus on the president's request for $116 billion more for the war in the fiscal year that starts on Sept. 1.

The combined spending requests would push the total for Iraq to $564 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. What could that kind of money buy?

A college education - tuition, fees, room and board at a public university - for about half of the nation's 17 million high-school-age teenagers.

Pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-old in the country for the next eight years.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington//17158295.htm

The actual cost would be 4 times the 500 bill when all other post-war costs are figured in.

The Real Costs? We all know what those are.

Impeach. Indict. Incarcerate.

[Monkeyman]

1. K&R

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Impeachment is a no-brainer. What is it about law and order our elected officials can't understand?

[lonestarnot]

3. The managing time excuse isn't playing with me. Sorry elected officials.