Photos: J Church
According to the website National Priorities Project (NPP), the US has already spent $283 billion in the glorious war to bring a Shiite theocracy to Iraq. We aren’t even done. No doubt, many more will be killed, and the costs in dollars and wasted lives to create a governance irrational and medieval is the newest tragedy of the 21st Century.
We chose to attack a dictator who ruled a country surrounded by other dictators.
Closer to home, the NPP estimates that Los Angeles County alone, spent $8 billion so far to prosecute the war in Iraq. $35 billion is what it has cost California taxpayers.
One wonders what $8 billion could have purchased here in LA.
The Republicans have again changed the topic of conversation to illegal immigration, inflaming and angering Americans who think they are being robbed and fleeced by poor Mexicans slipping through underground sewers to stand on street corners in San Diego.
We could have a glorious nation if we didn’t have the G.O.P.
“She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” –John Quincy Adams, 1821
Here in Van Nuys 