Happy May Day

As of yesterday, the Pentagon has acknowledged 3,337 American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The attacks of Sept 11 killed 2948.

Thus far, the war has cost between 420 and 440 billion dollars.  The administration believed the war would be quick, cheap and easy.  The estimate was 50 billion, and they were confident that the oil from Iraq would pay the cost of the war.  Dick Cheney said as recently as three weeks ago that the cost would be "around $50 billion."

What does it take to indict a war criminal?  If a president lying about an extramarital affair is grounds for impeachment, why isn't committing the country to a trumped up war, thousands of Americans dead, scores of thousands of Americans maimed for life, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani nationals dead and wounded solely because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time?  Has there ever been a more incompetent yet arrogant world leader?  It boggles.

And there's more good news: after a hiatus of not even six months, the politcal advocates are back at the phone banks.  In the past two days I've gotten three calls - two for the junior senator from Illinois and one for the junior senator from New York.  Yeah, I'm crabby all right.