First, ask yourself where the vast majority of the defense budget, Iraq-related or not, winds up. We don't buy M-1 tanks from Japan. It would be amusing to go down the list of cities on that board and find out how much of their economy rides on defense spending. Try looking up St. Louis.

Second, this entire thing is based on the premise, one of the foundations of the leftist religion, that an endeavor's success, particularly social and educational programs, are directly proportional to how much government money is spent on it. That there has never been any objective evidence that this is so does not seem to sink in to a lot of people.