7 Years, 700 Billion Dollars And 4000+ Caskets

Posted by BGH

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We have been fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, for a total of seven years. When I say we I mean the soldiers who volunteer for service, the families that anguish over the safety of their loved ones involved in the these conflicts and the taxpayers who this immense financial debt is heaped upon.

Where have we traveled in these long, stressful years? Apparently nowhere. The G.A.O. (Government Accountability Office) has issued a report that illustrates essentially the same terrorist threat to the United States that existed seven years ago in the Afghanistan/Pakistan area of the middle east, persists nearly untouched today, in the same area of the region. The same safe haven in tribal Afghanistan that harbored Osama Bin Laden and fellow extremists at the beginning of the war is still effectively providing shelter for the planning of future attacks on U.S. interests.

Billions of dollars have gone unaccounted for in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed or injured and little deterrence has been exerted on true 'enemies' the while our president and his cabinet profess, “Mission Accomplished”, “It’s not a quagmire” and “The surge is working”. During this time opinion of the U.S. has declined on the world stage, domestic public opinion of the president has sunk to one of the lowest levels experienced by any U.S. Commander In Chief. We have seen this administration blatantly deny scandal after scandal regarding this war; Democrats seek resignation of top VA mental health official, only seems to be the most recent incident from a laundry list of cover-ups and suppression of evidence.

As Rob Riggle from The Daily Show poignantly stated, we have been driving in a fucking circle for seven years and the guy leading the way is fucking clueless.



Way to make daddy proud George W., your ineptitude, ignorance and corruptibility is unsurpassed. You are certainly first in your class.
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