Iraq: "6000 additional personnel and $2 billion extra likely as soon as Tuesday"

"White House likely to update Iraq war request."

I can't help but think that we could have purchased at least Baghdad, 4 other cities and all the oil production outright with all the money that's been spent. Let Laura have a palace, the girls each have one, and one for Barney. GWB has an aversion to actually being near a war zone, as opposed to creating them.

There would have been electrical power, water, sewers, all manner of neat things. Oil galore. Libraries, universities, oh the possibilities!

And there would be no "Green Zone". SUVs all over the place.

Makes more sense than what's gone on. A lot of fine people would still be living. And it wouldn't have been a haven for terrorists.