Thursday, April 20, 2006

HFS!

Holy fucking shit, check out this headline from Juan Cole tonight: Cost of War Heading toward One Trillion Dollars!

And Bush/Cheney still keep it off the books!

Cole gets into it about lowballing, makes comparisons with unscrupulous auto salesmen, the kind who might, say, quote you a war for $50,000,000,000. But once you've got it in your mind that this is a great bargain and mentally driven it home, all-in-all he ends up taking you for $1,000,000,000,000.

When you think about it, that's only 20 times $50 BILLION DOLLARS.

The esteemed Professor backs it up with the ABC News report.

Well, let's look on the bright side. At least the invasion of Iraq has brought down the price of gasoline.

Oops, my bad.

For an answer on that, you might have to ask Lee Raymond, retiring Chairman and CEO of Exxon. His $400 million compensation package must mean that he did a great job in the public trust. And that's on top of the $686 million he was paid by Exxon for the years 1993-2005. A mere $144,573 a day.

Remind me again, what happened the last time the nation's oil interests captured the Presidency with a Republican of their own?

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