Just think of where we would be now if we had allocated the same resources to finding bin Laden if Afghanistan that we have allocated to the stupid invasion of Iraq!!
$2 billion a week and what have we got to show for it except a lot of death and pain for people who don't deserve it and bin Laden is still on the loose. Not to mention the effects that reallocating $ has had on domestic tranquility.
I wonder how many of the civilians who have died in Iraq, whether at the hand of the insurgents or our forces, had in the heart or mind doing any harm to the US?
Bush is also worried about people leaking intelligence assessments and branding everybody who disagrees with him as traitors (cut and run). That SOB needs to realize that WE are the taxpayers and paid for those intelligence assessments. WE, not he, is the government and the bastard needs to come to realize that. WE pay a small fortune (for most folks) for the spin machine they have set up in the White House to tell us what to believe and control the flow of information. When Tony Snow says the administration is "transparent", I guess he is referring to the space between Bush's ears.