This weekend marked one of the deadliest in Iraq since the U.S. invasion began more than two years ago. In three days of suicide attacks, more than 150 people have been killed with nearly 300 wounded.
And, by the way, we are approaching $200,000,000,000 for the cost of our "military intervention." That would have paid for 24,052,998 children to attend a year of Head Start. Or, we could have insured 108,742,650 children for one year. Or, we could have hired 3,147,155 additional public school teachers for one year. Or we could have provided 8,803,586 students four-year scholarships at public universities.
But instead, we killed 25,881 Iraqis, which works out to about $7.75 million dollars per murdered person. As I have caustically said before, can't killing people be a little bit more cost effective than that?
OK, enough. My ranting does no good.
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