$12 billion

That is what the war costs the United States per month in real dollars. It is a striking sum on money. While it pales in comparison to the cost in life and limb that the men and women in uniform pay everyday, it is a figure we must contemplate. How much healthcare can $144 billion a year purchase? How much of our nation’s crumbling infrastructure could have been upgraded or replaced? How much research into low emission energy generation does that buy? Katrina? Education? I could go on for a while here.

Unfortunately, the Commander Guy has blown $600 billion on death, destruction, and a failed state. If Bush bitches one iota about the Democrats’ spending priorities, somebody had better bring him the pain. Hard.