Paying for Iraq

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Economics, Iraq, Law, Politics, The Middle East

The Bush administration, and its cheerleaders, insist that going to war in Iraq was vital to national security. (It was not.) It’s too bad that they want our grandchildren to pay for their $2 trillion mistake.

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Written by: Samuel J. Scott on 5 October 2007.

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