Seeing that the cost of the wars this year is 111 billion, could some clever accountant try to save 1 percent of it somehow (1 billion) and move it to a different part of the budget to avoid selling national forests - land that the public will probably never get back?
From the Los Angeles Times, 11 February 2006:
The Bush administration is planning on raising $1 billion for rural roads and schools by auctioning off 300,000 acres in public lands (including 85,000 acres of national forest land in Califoria) to make up for a federal subsidy eliminated from President Bush’s 2007 budget. It will be the largest land sale of its kind since the US Forest service was established in 1905.
As several posters have pointed out, you can’t control when and where hurricanes occur, but generally people have some level of control over when and where wars occur.
The cause of a hurricane is warm water combined with conditions conducive to thunderstorm formation, a pre-existing weather disturbance, a relatively close proximity to the equator, and low vertical wind sheer.
The cause of the war in Iraq is somewhat unclear, since the justification for the war changed once the war was over. Further, unlike the factors causing a hurricane to form, war is always a human choice. That’s what many people have been emphasizing: you can hate all the factors that cause a hurricane to develop but hurricanes continue to exist regardless of our feelings. War, particularly the war in Iraq, was primarily Bush’s choice, whose aftermath could have been drastically improved with a more realistic and in-depth post-war plan.
Well Clothahump recently started a thread saying the WMDs had been found…
Anyway, I missed out a pair of quotemarks + a smiley (which might have alerted Clothahump to the parallel between the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and that there were no WMDs in Iraq).
Let me correct your post:
Waging war against a regime set up by the US: $5.9 billion a month
‘Not having any more WMD’s in Iraq’: :rolleyes: priceless