I'm looking forward to the speech tonight. I'm anxiously awaiting the pearls of wisdom from our feckless leader that will totally and completely alter my views on pre-emptive strikes.
What I really want to hear is the "long-term" strategy. The hand to hand combat in the streets of Baghdad, the full audit of projected costs for the management of stability in the region and most of all, the cost of human life, both Iraqi and most importantly American.
What I'd like to see is a chart that maps out the support costs and then on top of those numbers an estimation of body bags per month. I believe we should use the same math applied to the victims of the WTC and the Pentagon. This is, right, just an extension of the war on terror? If so, all soldiers brought home from Iraq in pine boxes should receive the same compensation. If the median payout for the WTC employees is $1,358,970.00.....then the military's death benefit should match that, right?
Could we get Georgie to expand on the $9 billion a month estimate to include say a $13.5 billion per 10,000 soldiers added to that? I'd hate to see us valuing the life of one American over another just because we needed a post 9/11 publicity coup.
Posted by kerry at October 7, 2002 01:27 PM