Hey this Iraq War thing may not be all that and a bag of chips!

Great article in Sunday's Star about the fallout from the Saddam death video and a great primer for the botched history of the U.S and allies involvement in the area. I know this isn't a subject matter I normally delve into but this piece by David Olive in The Star is sobering reading and may give you a better idea about what's really going on "Over There" and a sense of just how pointless the whole mess is.

Two things really stuck out. The death toll The Bush peeps estimate it as low as 57 thousand.(No small number, those are people we're talking about.)
A U.K. Medical journal reports the number at 654 thousand. 601 thousand from post-invasion violence.

The other numbers that are frightening is the cost. George Jr. told Americans in 2003 that the cost of Saddam's removal would not top $60 billion, a sum that Iraqis would pay out of their own oil revenues. Which hasn't worked out so much since the insurgency, predictably, crippled Iraq's petroleum infrastructure within weeks of the invasion and has kept it that way for almost four years. I guess the President didn't remember the retreating Iraqi army lighting all those oil well on fire as they left Kuwait.

Anyway it's a bit more than $60 billion. According to a couple of Real Smart People...a former head of the World Bank, a Noble laureate and some Harvard Prof, the real bill for the Invasion and Occupancy is certain to exceed $1TRILLION dollars.
I'm not the smartest cat but isn't that A LOT MORE than $60 billion.

Just something to think about other than the Warmest Winter Ever!