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O-Stimulus cost more than Iraq War

Fundamental transformation of USA does not come cheap

Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter wrath against their unprecedented spending excesses.

The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush's economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker's Randall Hoven points out, that's the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation's Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.

The key point in the mantra is an alleged $3 trillion cost for the war. Well, it was expensive to be sure, in both blood and treasure, but, as Hoven notes, the CBO puts the total cost at $709 billion. To put that figure in the proper context of overall spending since the war began in 2003, Hoven provides this handy CBO chart showing the portion of the annual deficit attributable to the conflict:

But there is much more to be said of this data and Hoven does an admirable job of summarizing the highlights of such an analysis:

* Obama's stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War -- more than $100 billion (15%) more.

(from washingtonexaminer.com)

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Summer reading: BigGov shot JFK

The Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters

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JFK and the Unspeakable at amazon.com:

"With penetrating insight and unswerving integrity, Douglass probes the fundamental truths about JFK's assassination ... By far the most important book yet written on the subject." -- Gaeton Fonzi, former Staff Investigator, US House Select Committee on Assassinations

"JFK and the Unspeakable is an exceptional achievement. Douglass has made the strongest case so far in the JFK assissiation literature as to the Who and the Why of Dallas." -- Gerald McKnight, author, Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why

Douglas presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy -- at odds with his initial Cold War stance -- that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners amont the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. -- Daniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Mainz, France-Soviet, Molotov-Ribbentrop

On this day: August 24

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague (1349)

France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty (1931)

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (also known as Nazi-Soviet Pact) is signed between German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov (1939)

The Communist Control Act goes into effect outlawing the American Communist Party (1954)

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