The costs--in both human lives and dollars--of this administration's ill-conceived, mismanaged, and illegal war continues to pile skyward. As we've passed the war's fifth anniversary, our nation's 4,000th dead soldier, humanity's 1,000,000th dead individual, our Congress is preparing in April to give George Bush another $102 billion (yes, billion with a 'B'). Sometimes I think people don't really understand how much a billion is. Start by just writing it out... $102,000,000,000
Say, that's quite a lot of zeros, isn't it? How long would it take to count to 102 billion? If I could hand you a one-dollar bill every second, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, without ever taking break, it would take me 3,366 years to give you 102 billion dollars. Now, when you think about the fact that George has already burned through $562 billion while watching the death tolls skyrocket and our own economy slide steadily into the toilet, don't you have to ask, what are we thinking!?!? Sadly, most of us are not thinking. We're too busy going to the mall, filling up our SUVs, stuffing our faces, and watching T.V. (because, after all, as George has said, if we don't do those things, the terrorists win.) If we were thinking, we would realize that we are in control. We can pressure our Congress to stop this madness. We can pressure our Congress to impeach these clowns--or at the very least, put them on a shorter leash by holding them accountable to our own laws. We can flood the government with e-mails, letters, phone calls, picketers, protesters, etc. Come on folks... let's wake up. |
