Just a reminder that life in Iraq is still hell under the American occupation. Please do remember that when Bush says that war was justified for whatever stupid reason he’s come up with this week.

When questioned by Congress, Donald Rumsfeld today upped his estimate of the cost of Iraqi occupation to $3.9 billion per month, double the previous estimates. To put that in perspective, $4 billion dollars would pay the monthly salaries of one million teachers.

Oh, and that doesn’t include reconstruction costs. Of course not.

This conversation about Iraq is much wittier than any I’ve had, but it sounds very familiar.

And yes, I’m stealing outright from Wil Wheaton’s weblog.

If you know me at all, you probably know that I’m not in favor of attacking Iraq. You probably also know that I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I like my science skeptical, and I like my arguments backed up by data.

So you can imagine how much this page rattled me. If you can’t tell why, read the statement of principles on that page. Then read the names at the bottom. Then read the date.
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