$1 Trillion and Counting?!?

Today, Congress reached an astounding new level of absurdity. A new ‘emergency supplemental appropriation’ for spending in Afghanistan and Iraq, whose allotment will now bring the grand total spent on these wars over one trillion dollars, has been approved by the House of Representatives. This is unbelievable! For almost nine years now, we have been pouring money, resources, and not to mention human lives, into this meaningless war. Left-wing blogger Joe Sudbay agrees with me in his post today on AMERICAblog. As he writes, “There’s no price tag that can sum up the unnecessary human tragedies.”

Sudbay, who has over 25 years experience in the political arena, knows just how to attract his readers without having to over-embellish. He is writing to the Average Joes out there, who don't like to hear that billions and billions of tax-payer money is going to fuel this trifling war.

Why are we even in this war, let alone still financing it? As Sudbay believes, it is because of “the failed leadership of George Bush and Dick Cheney,” and quite frankly, I couldn’t agree with him more. It was Bush who stormed into Iraq without the approval of Congress or of the United Nations. Isn’t that against the laws of our country? Declaration of war is not something that the President should be able to do so carelessly. And who is there to hold our president accountable? Correct me if I’m mistaken, but doesn’t it say in our Constitution that any citizen may bring suit against the President if he has reasonable cause?

Furthermore, couldn’t we also bring suit against Barack Obama or Congress as well? Don’t get me wrong, I would much rather have Obama in the White House than Bush or McCain, but even the Democrats can get carried away for all the wrong reasons. For, to some degree, isn’t appropriating this enormous sum of money and ridiculous number of soldiers to serve in the hostile environments of the Middle East harmful to the betterment of America? I do not see how gambling with trillions of dollars and millions of lives is taking America in the direction that we all want to go.