There are no further plans for significant funding for reconstruction although the troops will continue to be sufficiently funded.

The US Army requested $20B to repair and replace equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for some reason OPM makes a decision to only give $7B. In this past week, the border security is funded $1.1B. The funds were found by moving $0.7B from GWOT and $0.4B from the reconstruction work in New Orleans. Last year the administration funded border security $1B by taking OMA monies from the US Army and US Marines. The administration and Congress are moving monies around while giving good rah-rah speeches on how much they love the military.

I am, of course, pissed that Bush cut and run from Afghanistan and the criminals who carried out one of history’s most devastating cases of arson (that’s right, not war, arson).

I’m pissed that Bush cut and run on the Constitution, deciding that we could sacrifice some protections for our own citizens in order to… what was it? And joined the world’s most reprehensible regimes in signing on to torture, warrantless searches, indefinite detention without charges, trial, or the right to know the evidence against you. WHAT? The cornerstones of the rule of law? We tossed THAT because an organized crime group burned down two buildings and killed 3,000 Americans? And then we STOPPED looking for the perp because Bush had some vendetta against a sovereign nation that didn’t have anything do with that attack? This reads like a really bad novel.

I’m pissed that team Bush keeps trying to sugar coat this, as if it’s all going swimmingly; all the while knowing for a fact that we will have to “cut and run” from Iraq.

Finally, I’m pissed that Bushco, while cutting and running, has made “cut and run” some kind of epithet that we’re supposed to think is the sorry policy of the other side.

Oh, and BTW, we “cut and run” from Vietnam, now an ally with whom we have full diplomatic relations, pretty good tourism and a growing American corporate presence. Hmmmmmm. How bad was that? Uh, what happenened to that ‘domino theory’?

Gee, what’s the best we could hope for from Iraq? How about this? A country ruled by a strongman who deplores and doesn’t tolerate fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, women’s rights to education, freedom from the burqua, an educational system that’s the envy of the Islamic world, electricity and clean water and sanitation for all. Oh how I wish we could have that back.

Hey, I’m just saying…..

You meet this hot chick who the other day who you’ve dated a few times, big problem is she’s got this old man who beats on her.

So you open a can of ‘Whoop Ass on her old man and he gets hauled off to the can. Right after you get the old man put away, you find out he’s got like tons of kin who normally don’t get along, but they now want to kick your ass, while kicking each others ass a bit.

Some time in the middle of the fight with all the various uncles, cousins and various others, you notice that the chick you thought was so cute has lifted your wallet and is over hitting on her second cousin, twice removed.

Now you can

A) Stay the course, because after all you have a really big can a ‘Whoop Ass and it’s better to have the fight over at the chicks bar than one back on home turf.

B) Get the heck out of Dodge as fast as you can with as many teeth as possible.

C) Hope that the chick you dug so much at the start of the fight has heard the AeroSmith tune, “My Big 10 Inch” and hope she comes to her senses soon and maybe even starts to swing a beer bottle or two at some of her cousins.

About sums it up I think.