re: And why doesn't Halliburton and Iraq bother him, speaking of "ratholes"?
Get serious. While I doubt his figures, I believe the money is being spent in the good ol' US of A, for the benefit of US of Aers.
Even granting the premise that spending tax money on a rathole is virtuous if it's spent in America (which I don't):
Where do you think money that goes to Halliburton gets spent? Nigeria? For that matter, where do you think most our military money is spent? Norway?
The only money actually leaving American hands would probably be money in Iraq that is going into the hands of Iraqi contractors, and you people bitch endlessly about how little that is.