Republicans use war to get re-elected

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show.

In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.

Meanwhile, we have crumbling infrastruture, out of control prices due to all this increased debt and increasing numbers of people without health insurance.

We are borrowing principally from China to finance this war on Iraq which is being used by Al Quaeda to recruit and to blead us dry just like they did the Russians. McCain says we could be there another 100 years.