ABSOLUTELY NOT, according to the administration. At least that is what we've heard so far. Instead, we've heard various other purported reasons, such as the following: Because Saddam Hussein has shown contempt for the United Nations and for his deceptions and cruelties. Because Iraq has failed to co-operate with United…
We usually hear about "lies, damn lies, and statistics," but, in the case of the US national debt, it's more like "lies, damn lies, and more damn lies." Bush and Congressional Republicans campaigned on promises of fiscal restraint, but their promises have turned out to be even bigger lies than the ones they…
The public grade school in my neighborhood has a science classroom, but no science teacher. I’m not a teacher or a scientist, but I’ve been asked to help teach science there. You see, there’s no money in the budget to hire a science teacher. Therefore, all 350 of the children…
A dollar bill is approximately 0.0035" thick. So, a stack of one billion dollar bills would be 55.24 miles high. A stack of 224 billion dollar bills (the approximate cost so far of invading Iraq) would be 12,373.76 miles high. That's halfway around the earth's equator (the earth's circumference is 24,900…
One thing I still don't understand about Iraq is why nobody in the Bush Administration apparently anticipated this long-running insurgency. Wasn't it reasonably foreseeable that some of Iraq's tens of thousands of Republican Guard troops, and hundreds of thousands of regulars, could simply hide their weapons and melt back into the…