Enough Already!!

Enough with the rain!  We're into day two and it's showing no signs of moving out quickly.  I'm ready for some sunshine.  Thanks to Jack Cafferty for brightening my day with a bit that pretty much mimics my feelings: it's very frustrating to see requests for more and more money for the Iraq War and for whatever's going on in Afghanistan, yet we can't come up with smaller amounts to help people here at home.

Bush Says No To Children And Yes To War - Bin Laden Tape Shows Up Just In Time

Just last week Bush vetoed $35 billion for sick children, but now he needs $46 billion more for the occupation in Iraq. “The Iraq war is now costing $330 million a day. That could pay for 1700 more border patrol agents, or provide health-care for an [...]

As long as we're racking up notes on the war, how about this one?

Iraq Sniper Attacks Quadruple (Updated)

Sniper attacks in Iraq "have increased steadily during the past year, with the number of attacks quadrupling," the Pentagon says. DANGER ROOM pal Catherine Macrae Hockmuth made the catch, after combing through the Defense Department's request for another $42 billion [...]

Hey, how about those prisoners?  Tortured?

General claims Bush gave 'marching orders' on aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents to demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book...."The documents show unambiguously that the administration has adopted some of the methods of the most tyrannical regimes," write Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh. "Documents from Guantanamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating 'stress positions,' held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months." Most of the documents [...]

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