To those who scoffed at my "trillions" statement: Here you go!
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More - washingtonpost.com
Again...what a waste!

Amen to the idea of clean slate...it seems to me that many defenders of policy one way or another are defending something because their side chose the course of action. Republicans defend Bush, Dems Obama so on and so forth. Then behind closed doors you get the admission that they do not agree with the decision and would not have chosen that course of action.

We need to get past this my team/us/them concept that has screwed up our government and made such a mess.

On an aside, I think it interesting that the single largest donor group to Ron Paul's failed presidential bid was military members.