January 18, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

IRAQ: SUCH A WASTE

Poet Robert Frost once wrote about the "road not taken." What if George W. Bush had not launched this unnecessary and bloody war in Iraq? Even if you put aside the thousands upon thousands of deaths and maimings, just consider the monetary cost. Consider how that money could have been used productively. We could find cures for deadly diseases. We could do something serious about making education affordable for everyone. We could have health care for everyone. This article by David Leonhardt is at www.nytimes.com:

The way to come to grips with $1.2 trillion is to forget about the number itself and think instead about what you could buy with the money. When you do that, a trillion stops sounding anything like millions or billions.

For starters, $1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment for every American whose diabetes or heart disease is now going unmanaged and a global immunization campaign to save millions of children’s lives.

Combined, the cost of running those programs for a decade wouldn’t use up even half our money pot. So we could then turn to poverty and education, starting with universal preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old child across the country. The city of New Orleans could also receive a huge increase in reconstruction funds.