RE:RE:Bog On behalf of the "Other Canadians" on this board I Just another typical Right-wing potty-mouth poliical response. BTW - Who turned over the rock, and brought these vermin to the surface? I realize that it probably is hard for anyone, who has never spent a day in national service, to appreciate that having served two years aboard on an American warship has made me pretty much immune to their naughty schoolboy taunts.
Actually, it just serves to remind me of the same kind of abuse I was subjected to when opposing George W.’s invasion of Iraq. Oh yeah, Right-wingers, you took this country into a war based upon a lie.
So how did that turn out?
“According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 including interest. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per US citizen.[7][8] A CRS report (conducted after the 2010 end of combat operations and 2011 withdrawal) was released in December 2014. It placed the cost of the war operations in Iraq as of January 1, 2014, at $815 billion out of the total $1.6 trillion approved by Congress since September 2001.[9] Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, have stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, described in their book The Three Trillion Dollar War and possibly more in a study published in March 2008.[10] Stiglitz has stated: "The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions...Needless to say, this number represents the cost only to the United States. It does not reflect the enormous cost to the rest of the world, or to Iraq."[10]”
7. Richard Sammon (July 2007). "Iraq War: The Cost in Dollars". Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
8. "U.S. CBO estimates $ ieved 2007-10-24.
9. Amy Belasco (December 2014). "The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
10. The three trillion dollar war Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine from The Times of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Yeah, yeah, I know, Right-wingers just want to move on and forget about the immense loss of life and trillions of dollars wasted. Just like they want to forget about their failed coup and insurrection, already trying to rebrand it as a “tourist visit”, a day of “love and kisses” between freedom-loving patriots and the welcoming police officers.
The greatest con perpetrated on the American people by the Right-wing is their supposed willingness to accept responsibility. They never accept responsibility for any of the disaster they have taken this country.
Rather than accept responsibility for the break-in at Watergate, Nixon stonewalls and fires the investigator. Reagan, supposedly, didn’t know nothing about selling missiles to Iran and then illegally shipping weapons to Central America, causing further damage to their economy and subsequently adding to the mass migration from the region we see today. And it wasn’t George W.’s fault he ignored the intelligence briefing (supposedly) that we were about to be attacked using commercial aircraft as weapons.
No one ever took responsibility for the falsehood of WMD’s that although that illegal war destroyed Iraq, cost the lives of thousands of Americans, and buried the U.S. in debt, it did, on theother hand, eliminate the Saudi’s main oil competitor. Who just happen to be one of Bush’s best friends – you know, like Trump.
Lies, falsehood, and deceit, soaring national debt with billions wasted, and the wanton destruction of a people with hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost, oh yes let’s just move on until they finally destroy all that is good about this nation and handcuff our ability to compete in the future global economy.
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