If the Charlatan looks befuddled, its because he is. He even looked a gift horse in the mouth. We now know the price of his pride thanks to a transcript of the meeting he had with the Spanish Prime Minister at his hobby farm in Crawford a month before the invasion. In the meeting he told the Prime Minister that Saddam had offered to go into exile in Egypt for $1 billion. He took the offer as genuine, but rejected it. He boasted that, "We'll be in Baghdad by the end of March". The war in Iraq is now approaching the same cost as Vietnam. It has already cost more than the Korean War. His latest request to Congress for funding both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is $150 billion more. 3800 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead. Too bad for our country he did not have the horse sense his daddy had when presented with the opportunity to take the road to Baghdad.
Friday, September 28, 2007
District of Bizarro--The Price of Pride
If the Charlatan looks befuddled, its because he is. He even looked a gift horse in the mouth. We now know the price of his pride thanks to a transcript of the meeting he had with the Spanish Prime Minister at his hobby farm in Crawford a month before the invasion. In the meeting he told the Prime Minister that Saddam had offered to go into exile in Egypt for $1 billion. He took the offer as genuine, but rejected it. He boasted that, "We'll be in Baghdad by the end of March". The war in Iraq is now approaching the same cost as Vietnam. It has already cost more than the Korean War. His latest request to Congress for funding both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is $150 billion more. 3800 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead. Too bad for our country he did not have the horse sense his daddy had when presented with the opportunity to take the road to Baghdad.