Mccain: "Baghdad, nice and safe now"

Back in March of 2007 on Bill Bennett's Morning in America radio show, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said that there were parts of Baghdad where he and the host could go for a walk. What?

The very next month yes Mccain took they stroll through a market in Iraq. Couldn't you just imagine it? Mccain skipping along, smelling the roses, doing a little shopping to bring home souvenirs for the family. Couldn't you just see it?

To show how safe it was Mccain took his stroll with a bulletproof vest, 100 American soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead. Just like the same walk he would take down any American neighborhood.





Push forward to recently in July when Sen. John McCain told "Good Morning America" that he was glad Obama was in Iraq and insisted the trip will give his Democratic rival an opportunity to see the success of the surge strategy.

"He'll be able to have the opportunity to see the success of the surge. It is a success. This is the same strategy that he voted against, railed against," McCain told ABC News' Diane Sawyer. "He should admit he was wrong about the surge," McCain later added.

Basically from the time Mccain made that statement in March till the one in July of this year 880 U.S soldiers have been killed with an average daily count of 30 a day for all soldiers in Iraq. Thirty people dying every single day, yeah very safe.

This month has not gotten any better since then either. Gunmen on Saturday abducted and killed four employees of an Iraqi television station who were filming a program about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, one of a series of attacks in Iraq that left at least 18 people dead. A bomb concealed in a kiosk used to sell ice killed four security personnel and wounded nine people at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said. Northeast of the capital, eight Kurdish soldiers died in a roadside bombing that reflected how ethnic tensions remain dangerously high. Over this weekend over forty Iraqi citizens have been killed.

How long will it take for this "surge" take before we see success? Fifty years? A hundred years? Mccain says who cares how long just as long as we win.

Don't Let this Show Get Cancelled

The debut of this show only brought in 9.1 million viewers, not even half of what Lost brought in on it's debut. J.J Abrams the co-creator of Lost has his new high action intense drama new show Fringe which premeired on Fox this past Tuesday. A repeat airs this Sunday 8/7c. This show is excellent based off the pilot episode which premeires like a movie (two-hour special).

'Fringe' Synopsis:
When Flight 627 lands at Boston’s Logan Airport with no signs of life on it, a special task force led by FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is sent to investigate. Olivia's partner, Special Agent John Scott, is almost killed during the investigation, which leads her to seek the help of Dr. Walter Bishop, an incredibly brilliant man who has been institutionalized for the last 17 years.

Since Bishop's son Peter is the only person who can arrange a meeting, Olivia is forced to let him in on this mysterious situation.
After Olivia's investigation leads them to multi-billion dollar corporation Massive Dynamic, the entire team soon learns that what took place on Flight 627 is just the tip of the iceberg.

When is it on?:
Tuesdays at 9pm EST on Fox

Starring:
Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop
John Noble as Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis
Mark Valley as John Scott

Our Next President? Please.......Spare Me

Sarah Palin to get on the Job Training

Quote from John Mccain fom October 2007

"I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time," - Senator John Mccain

Why is America so Blind to Flat out Lies?

America, or more important White America, what's going on? Do you even look at the facts anymore or are you easily riled up like a crazy mob from a bunch of words with no substance. The ads that continue to come out of the Mccain-Palin camp that you keep eating up are mind blowing. In the age of media technology it is beyond easy for us to verify these statements and debunk them, but yet we continue to allow it to go on like it is fact.

Truth Behind The Ads


The Latest Lie



Honestly I would before this election campaign called myself an independent, and still do. However this year I have put my full support behind Obama for the simple fact I think he is better to lead than Mccain. Before Palin, Mccain knew he was sinking and had no chance against Obama. He wasnted to choose Joe Liberman for his VP pick, but his advisor team went with Palin, which has turned out to be the best move of this political race for the White House. Can you honestly tell me Mccain picked Palin for her experience and knowledge. He had only met her once (in passing) before selecting her and meeting with her to offer the VP slot. How can you trust a man who made a decision like this based off a brief meeting in the past. When questioned Mccain does not even know Palin's record very well.

Simply put this move was made solely to get to the White House, which might come true if the American people don't stop acting like mice to his piped piper. The only difference between him and Bush is Mccain wants more war.

Please let's look past Palin's great personality and winning spirit and the whole hockey mom thing. All of that is great, and yes she seems like a great American but aren't we all? I know I posess a winning spirit, I have a son whom I love, and I am certainly a proud American. I have been told by many my personality is my best trait. None of that means I should be second in command of the most powerful country on the planet earth.

If Mccain is lying in his ads now what lies will he and his hockey mom eye candy tell during their reign in the White House. Wake up people......Please Wake Up.

99.9% of Stereotypes Are True

First off let me tell you a little about my heritage. I don't know the exact percentages but here goes: part Scottish, part Blackfoot Indian, part Grenadian, part Jamaican, part Cherokee Indian and part African American. As you can see I am a melting pot of a lot of different ethnic backgrounds. Growing up in all African American community for the first thirty years of my life has essentially made me an African American by my friends and society. The tone of my voice would be identified as African American by many. The way I walked would be described by my friends would be a cool sort of glide. The foods I like are mostly be in the category of what is called "Soul Food". All this being said I only have a small part of me that is African American, but society has labeled me as Black, and that is fine with me. Although being multi-cultural has it's advantages.


Sometimes people are not sure what I am. I have been mistaken as Puerto Rican, Italian, White, Brazilian etc..... That being said I have been included in a lot of different circles of races. People are curious and want to know about me. That's were the fun comes in at.

I am a jokester and nothing is off limits when it comes to race with me. I treat all people equal and don't have a bigoted bone in my body, but will talk about stereotypes all day, simply because they are true.

Blacks:
-Yes they love fried chicken (who doesn't)
-Yes they can dance (is part of the Heritage from the Motherland)
-Black women are more shapely
-Yes there are a lot of Blacks in Jail (racist judicial system)
-Black men love a big booty (o yes)

Asians:
-Yes they eat a lot of rice
-they are shorter than other races
-they are a very humble
-they are better in math than anyone

Whites:
-Not good at dancing
-Best in terms of Military organization
-the best organized (in terms of working together)
-Not comfortable in Black neighborhoods
-Love mayonnaise

Indians (from India):
-They do own a lot of gas stations and seven elevens
-You will smell curry a lot in Indian homes (just like Lawry's salt in blacks)
-they eat a lot of vegetables
-Very good at science

Mexicans:
-Very close knit with family (which is why you always see a lot of them together)
-flour and corn, big part of their diet
-Have the best smelling laundry, hands down.
-Extremely hardworking
-Very dedicated to religion


There's nothing wrong with speaking the truth, if it's the truth. People have become so sensitive and are quick to get offended. Who cares, yeah a lot of stereotypes are true and that is what makes us unique and different. I love every race on this planet, and with that it enables me to get to know everyone and not rely on whether a stereotype is true or not. Because in the end WHO CARES.

(video from the conservative talk show host Jack Hunter "The Southern Avenger)

More Palin VP Qualifications

Okay so the Mayor of Detroit you got Canada, Florida Gov. you are our Cuban relations expert, Texas you guys got Mexico........

Does Mccain Know Anything About Palin?

Once again Grandpa is on the trail contradicting either himself or Palin. This time he refers to an earmark Montana got to study bear DNA. I guess his vetting team did not know about this tidbit on Miss anti wasteful spending Palin's home state investment.

Palin wanna Cracker: Palin Sounding Like a Parrot

Palin: Pitbull Looks More Like Poodle To Me

Everyone now has the transcript for the first part of Charlie Gibson's interview with VP Reuplican candidate Sarah Palin. From I have seen in this clip Palin already shows she has no idea what she is talking about. She does not even answer either question Gibson has for her. She barely gives a direct yes or no answer to Gibson's questions. In the matter of experience she continued to blow it off, even though it was such a huge topic for Mccain previuosly. Lastly we now have two who want war. Vietnam, Dessrt Storm, The Iraq War, and now the Iranian War and the Russian War. With that being said you know China is going to want some too. Hell let's take'em all out.




Palin on what it would take to invade Russia:
When Gibson said if under the NATO treaty, the United States would have to go to war if Russia again invaded Georgia, Palin responded: "Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.


"And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable," she told Gibson.

Palin asked about the Bush Doctrine... She doesn't know:

GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine? PALIN: In what respect, Charlie? GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be? PALIN: His world view. GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war. PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better. GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?


PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend.

Check it out:




The Bush Doctrine: (Here you go Sarah)

Is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan. Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.

"Road to Victory" as the Maverick Calls It

Progress in Iraq? A recent poll says that more Americans are feeling that progress is being made over in the worn torn Middle East. Well I should hope so, we have occupied the country for over five years. We all know we ended up over there with false pretenses of the dreaded weapons of mass destruction, which of course turned out to more than false. We did however remove a wicked dictator by the name of Saddam Hussien. The United States however is responsible for him being in power in the first place. It's no secret he was one of America's closet Mideast allies during the 1980s, and received substantial US military and financial aid. Most non political or Internet savvy Americans don't know this, but it is 100% true.

When you hear references to his tyranny, his cruelty, the accounts are generally true -- he was one hell of a bastard. The 'unknown news', though, is that at the peak of Saddam's tyranny and cruelty, the Reagan administration didn't just tolerate having Saddam in charge of Iraq, they funded and armed his regime. He was America's ally, just like several of the world's most despotic bastards are America's allies now. (by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News Dec. 30, 2006)

Today in Iraq, we have less attacks on military personnel and citizens alike. The question is at what cost have the American and Iraq people had to pay for this decrease in violence. So far over 4,000 American solders killed, an incredible 94,000 plus Iraq citizen casualties, approaching an incredible cost of $600 billion, a collapsing American economy, and a dramatic increase in the price of oil.

What happens after the surge backs down? Will violence increase again? Will it stay the same? When we finally hand it over to the Iraq government will they be able to hold off what they could not do alone before? The enemy has not been weakened at all. We brag and make headlines when a top operative was killed in a bombing raid or another taken captive. It's not like taking out a U.S. Senator or even the President. If we right now knew where Bin-Laden was hiding (Ceasars Palace Las Vegas) and took him out, it would not to anything to slow or curb terrorist attacks or their passion to want the Western ideals destroyed.

At this point in America's young life we are one of the most disliked and hated countries on the planet. We have lost our respect that we once had as a country of integrity and an economy that could not be touched. Europe now laughs at the Dollar as both the Pound and the Euro continue to grow against it.

We now are on the surge of wanting to invade Iran. I personally, and am not alone in believing this would be a colossal mistake and will put us in danger of confrontation with Russia that we would not be ready to take on. This is however the road we will be on if Mccain is elected President of the Great United States. Forty-seven percent of Europeans believe an Obama victory in November would lead to a better relationship between the United States and Europe, versus just 5 percent who think Obama would weaken the trans-Atlantic relationship.

By comparison, only 11 percent think Sen. John McCain would strengthen European-American relations if he were elected president. More than half of respondents said a McCain administration would keep relations between the United States and Europe in roughly the condition they are now.

This is how it will end? The great victory that is in sight as Mccain calls it. What did we win? Increased terror cells, thousands of dead American Soliders, a collapsing economy,a huge defecit, oil prices at an all time high, disrespect among our foreign allies, getting ready to walk into another war with Iran etc.... I guess I have a different definition of the word victory. --M.Green

The Day America Cried

LEST WE FORGET

Negative ads, Lies, ....Where's the Issues?

I don't feel sorry for Sarah Palin.......in regards to her getting bombarded with negative lies, rumors & photos etc..... Myself a supporter of Obama hate to see this going on, basically it helps her more than it hurts.

We all remember in the beginning the different rumors going around about Obama early on in his campaign fight against Hilary Clinton. Now we seem to have the same thing going on with Sarah Palin. What two things do Palin and Obama have in common? Well, once given the spotlight they exploded and became instant celebrities. The same word "celebrity" that the Mccain camp kept calling Obama is now what his running mate is. No matter how much negativity that Obama got early on, the more his popularity grew. Along with that his base of Anti-bama's grew as well. That being said it would cover both sides of the media and place him everywhere. He even made it to KKK.com the Klu Klux Klan site, because they had to address rumors that they supported him, which also were not true.

If I were on Palins PR team the first thing I would have done is to start making up a bunch of stories I knew that would easily in the end prove to be false. That way those who believed early on would later feel sorry for her and say everyone is ganging up on her because she is a minority (a woman). Those that supported her to begin with would feel even stronger and more supportive of their candidate. Believe me the only thing that Palin and Mccain don't want to see in the media is the truth. His policy reform plan. The same BS that we have dealt with the past eight years. The more the media addresses the insults that are traded back between camps the more the Replubican party can hide behind the issues. When given the chance she hasn't addressed anything other than she has five kids and is a hockey mom (maybe part pitbull), a small town mayor and of course said no to the bridge to nowhere. Bravo Palin camp for a job well done.

The only difference between a Republican and a liar is the nine homes that Mccain owns so he can understand what the working class is going through. --M.Green


What's being said about the Hockey Mom..



What was being said about Obama..

"Back Off Palin Clan"

By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 9, 2008 | Updated: 7:36 p.m. ET Sep 9, 2008

An Anchorage judge three years ago warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop "disparaging" the reputation of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who at the time was undergoing a bitter separation and divorce from Palin's sister Molly.


READ THE FULL STORY HERE Go visit Newsweek.

Cries of Millions Fall On Deaf Ears

The beginning of civilization looks in some parts like the end. The second largest continent other than Asia. This continent is so large that a full population census has never been made. Estimates say that the continent and its nearby islands may be home to as many as 748 million people. Great civilizations once roamed this great land. The Egyptians, the Nubians, and other great civilizations once walk the immense continent. A land where more natural resources come from than any other continent on Earth. Oil, diamonds, gold, coal,petroleum,uranium, chocolate & vanilla. These are just some of the natural resources that come from this land.

With all of it's great history and rich resources, this vast land has over 380 million people living in poverty. The average life expectancy for a male in the sub-Saharan region is but a mere 47 years of age in comparison with the U.S. of over 70. What future would you or I have living in a land such as as this. Certainly you could not hop in your air conditioned car and head down to mall to shop. First off you could not afford transportation and secondly no mall exists. No ice cold glass of lemonade on that hot summer day because electricity lines have never been ran to your village, and if they had been you could not afford to refridgeration anyway. Time for dinner your neighbor found a half eaten rotting carcass of a wildebeast and you are offered to share in this rare feast. Today you drink water, but not fresh bottled Avian but from a river that is home to several million viruses and diseases, hopefully you won't get Malaria today.

You and your family are awakened in the middle of night and separated permanently. Male children are now part of a warlord's army, women are now used for sex and then murdered. Some men are taken as slaves others are beheaded. The man you knew as your President yesterday lies dead in the road riddled with bullets. The new warlord seeks to make his name known throughout the land by any means necessary. The defining moment when you stare into your family's agony and they are dragged off in different directions you know that will be the last time your eyes would ever see them again, and life for you forever becomes a dark void from which you will never emerge from.

As the sun rises you realize you are still alive and yet must face the task of finding food to feed the belly that is swollen and a body that has already begun to eat it itself. You are the age of 32 and have outlived every member in your family and most of anyone whom you ever called a friend. Someone is fighting with one of villagers because he was trying to kill the one goat from whom the milk comes from for the entire village. It does not matter the animal with be dead by dawn from starvation. You can't remember the last time you had any other urge other than to eat, and frustration builds to the point of you wanting to cry, but your dehydrated body can form the liquid to do so. That would be your life if by chance you had been born in that land.


Back home in the "real world" I Recently walked through the neighborhood where I grew up, and during my short journey I found enough discarded food to feed several people in that land that has for so many years suffered in agony and longs for the days where it was once a proud and celebrated civilization.

When will the day come when the rich nations will put as much determination and passion into saving and wiping out starvation as they do trying to win a war. Whe have become a world of greed and slefishness, and compassion and caring have become an afterthought. The land where we all came from, (yes all of us) needs are help......How long can you remain blind to her cries, AFRICA! --M. Green

Africa struggling with famine
by ITN

Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

The WASHINGTON POST website is reporting Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.

During her speech at the Republican National Convention last week, Palin cast herself as a crusader for fiscal rectitude as Alaska's governor. She noted that she sold a state-owned plane used by the former governor. "While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for," she said to loud applause.


No way the staunch and Christian conservative who stomped out all the corruption in Wasilla and Great Sovereign state of Alaska would do some like that.

READ THE FULL DETAILED ARTICLE Go visit The Washington Post Site.

Rove: "Sarah Palin.....I mean Tim Kaine not a good VP Choice."

I know most people have seen this, but I just find it so funny. Twelve days after Karl Rove slams Gov. Tim Kaine as a VP candidate because he was a small town mayor and young as far as experience as Governor, Mccain picks Palin . Richmond, Virginia has twenty times more people in it's city than Sarah Palin's city of Wasilla. In fact Richmond population is over thirty percent of the entire population of Alaska. But Karl Rove says no way someone would pick Kaine as a VP.




Funny

Condoleezza Disses Palin.......Sort of

Over the weekend Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Zain Verjee of CNN about her recent trip to Libya. During the tail end of the interview Verjee asked Rice about Mccain's pick for VP. Most of us would think he would get a hearty pat on the back for his choice of a fellow female Republican, but not so. The big thing now is foreign policy experience which Obama has little and Palin has none. Rice on the other hand has extensive policy experience. During the administration of George H.W. Bush, Rice served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.

When beginning as Secretary of State, Rice pioneered a policy of Transformational Diplomacy, with a focus on democracy in the greater Middle East. Her emphasis on supporting democratically elected governments faced challenges as Hamas captured a popular majority in Palestine yet supported Islamist militants, and influential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt maintained authoritarian systems with US support. She chairs the Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors. She also speaks Russian, German, French, and Spanish. All that being said getting her endorsement on Palin heading over to a foreign country for a diplomatic trip did not me sound like a strong endorsement.


Take a Look......What do you think?

Where the are the Clinton's?

Besides the Democratic convention when was the last time you have seen Bill or Hillary on television campaigning for the Democratic ticket? Not much right? Well you say that's usually what happens, you don't see the losers after the campaign is over. Look who we are talking about though. Hillary Clinton is probably the most popular Democrat besides Barrack right now. She was a heartbeat away from winning the nomination. She has legions of loyal fans, yes fans (people who vote for someone just because their black or a woman or have a nice personality etc...). She could be on every headline newspaper on a daily basis if she kicked in the fighting spirit she had before she lost. Her against Palin would drown out Mccain and Obama easily. Also she needs to tell her "fans" that she turned down the VP spot during that meeting before she conceded to Obama. We all all know that she turned it down during that meeting. She did not want to share the spotlight with Obama no more than he wanted to with her, too much pride between the both of them. It would be like Eli Manning asking Tom Brady to join him on the talk shows and magazine shoots after losing in the Superbowl this past February, it just ain't gonna happen. Then you have Bill Clinton the most popular president since JFK who if he wanted to could hand Obama the keys to the White House by himself. We can't be that bitter that we will let another stuffy ass good ol' boy network Republican in the White House again. I guess we will wait and see over the next sixty days, won't we?

Or maybe the young Hilary should fight for Obama

Mccain Loves America.........now

Remember the speech Michelle Obama made headlines when she spoke in Milwaukee back in February to a crowd and said for the first time I am proud to be an American. That story got huge publicity by everyone (especially fox news). She was ripped by the Republican party over and over for one statement. I myself could have cared less about what she said. I don't see what the big deal was all about anyway. She did not say I hated America up until now or I was a communist up until now. She said she herself was not proud of America until that day. That is what makes this country great freedom of speech and expression. Maybe if she could rewind it back she would have re-worded it to sound more politically correct but what's done is done.

What if John Mccain would have said something as similar to what Michelle said about a month after her speech and everyone heard and knew about it, what would happen? Hmmmmmmm........I wonder................


From(jsjkim)you tube



NOW IF THE REPLUBICAN PARTY COULD STOP THE INSULTS AND FINGER POINTING AND LIES MAYBE WE COULD JUST FOCUS ON THE ISSUES AND SEE WHO COMES OUT ON TOP

What I don't Get

So when you run for President you should have served in the military or you are not a patriot and a elitist. That's what the Mccain camp and some websites and some media seem to point that Mccain was in the military and is a great patriot. They point out Barrack Obama has never served in the military at all like that is a sign of being unpatriotic. Barrack graduated High School in what 1979, what the hell was going on in '79 that would compel him to enter the military vs. getting a college education. We as a military were doing nothing. So he went to school graduated from Columbia University in 1983, became a community organizer for a few years and went to Harvard Law School where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years.

In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. But because he did this he is considered by some unpatriotic and uppity and a elitist.

Obama's home is not in some affluent area but in a middle to upper middle class area on the south side of Chicago. He has one home not nine like Mccain. He has been married once to his wife Michelle unlike Mccain who cheated on his ex with his current. Yes Mccain is a patriot he fought for his country and did a great service for her and deserves respect for that. So let's give Barrack the same for being a man getting an education and living with the people whom he serves today.


Here is some of the stuff going around



Here's who the real snob and elitist is. (video from the realmccain.com site)

Why does the Media Pick & Choose?

How many people know right now what the country of Hati is going through after the recent hurricane? Probably not many. When Georgia needed help Bush jumped up and condemed Russia for messing with them and of course it's all over the news. A country that is so close to the U.S. in terms of distance gets little to no attention. Iraq needs help oh we are on it (oil) but no not Hati. What can that ignorant dirty Little small country do for the great and mighty U.S. The cost of the Iraq war is now approaching $600 billion dollars and not slowing down. Yes the Iraq people are suffering and yes they need help but we know that's not why we are there.We seem to help countries only when it's in our best interest. Just a thought