Comments on: Iraq War's Price Tag Nears Vietnam's

Congressional Estimate Puts U.S. Costs In Iraq At $648B; Vietnam Cost $686B In 2008 Dollars

[rosieod4prez]

txgrouch2006 - the reason FDR was a ''great'' President was because it was only RUMORED that he was having an affair at the hot springs.

Clinton was only good because he good caught !

[rosieod4prez]

"Iraq War''s Price Tag Nears Vietnam''s"



Nice job CBS. So tell me, do you not consider deaths when talking about a "Price Tag of a War" ?


Or, is it you just wanted to sensationalize Iraq and TRY to tie it to the Democratic Debacle of the 60s and 70s ?



And, while you are at it, please explain why under the US folder you have three titles only:
1) War On Terror
2) Iraq After Saddam (like this isn''t part of the first)
3) Reporter''s Notebook


Is it because your editors OPENLY have a leftist point of view; or, haven''t you learned your lesson from Dan Rather. Remember, that reporter that took you from honesty to a disingenuous status, AND from number one to third in a 3 man race.

Wise up - report the news, don''t try to embellish upon it.

CBS, you should have promoted

[scoleridge-2009]

The Conservative Republicans have put the interest of their party ahead of our country. They will be lucky to win 30% of the votes this election. Iraq will be the yoke around their necks. Afghanistan will be the concrete poured around their ankles. I will gladly throw them overboard.

[antoniof123]

Posted by txgrouch2006 at 11:48 AM

Neo con let me expalin this to you. Bill Clinton was a beat dog in 1994, but he listened to America and move to the middle and did what a good slave should do he paid attention. Now in 2006 George Bush hunkered down and told America he was the master and the decider. Well, we voters (swing voters) will show the GOP who the master is.

Now if you try to use the Bill Clinton did win with the majority of all voters. Here is a fact Dole had less then 40 percent of the votes and the other canidates were all liberal. So had they not run it would have been a true blood bath that year.

I am sick of the GOP whinning and blaming the liberals I am a swing voter and I am sick of it and don''t really care what the GOP says any more.

Way to go neo cons you have really done it.

Have a nice day.

[lambor59]

Let''s go broke like the Russians.

[caldwellptr]

When is the United States not at War somewhere?

[bm6005]

txgrouch2006

Do you really like trillions being spent on a bunch of mideast ragheads? I''m sure you wouldn''t authorize a penny for native born Americans but your type seems enamored with pouring money down the ME rathole. You are a tax grouch only when it comes to your own countrymen!

[iphyt4u]

FDR was a great President. Clinton was also a good President. George W. Shrub and his followers are pathetic.

[bm6005]

txgrouch2006

Ya know you are just too easy. Carter warned that we needed to conserve and ronnie the r etard told everyone to burn as much as possible. ronnie''s attitude was conservation is unAmerican. CONgress and the executive branch have avoided the issue for over 30 years. I don''t care if you want to blame the dems or the repubs, they have all continually failed to attend to their job. They''re too worried about steroids in baseball and *** in the military. I agree about the baby boomers F''kin'' everything up but 88% of CONgress is made up of lawyers. Any question as to why mfg went offshore? Any question as to why health care is beyond many Americans? You sir, seem to be looking to grind a partisan ax not fix our problems. More of the same bullsh it. Remember; everytime Clinton brought up conservation the repubs shot it down. Perhaps you should read some history books!!

[wogerwabbit]

Posted by txgrouch2006 at 11:48 AM

LOL. 7 1/2 years after he leaves office you''re still blaming Clinton... pitiful.

[txgrouch2006]

skyk wrote
Great FDR
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Anyone who STILL thinks FDR was "great" IS TRIPPING.

[downsteamjim]

To SKYK: Sorry I insulted one of your gods. But looking at FDR''s wartime actions [putting Japanese in concentration camps, executing people in secret, reading private letters, etc] make G.B. look like a member of the ACLU.

[ajaxtheleast]

Remember Dylan''s "how does it feel" in
his "Like A Rolling Stone"?

Well George how DOES it feel to be the
begotten son born of the preceeding
president having someone play
"the party''s over" on his harmonica?

Oh make no mistake, George, you became
president the ONLY way, and the most
befitting way, that your level of
upstairs wiring COULD become president,,,

,,,by a good old fashioned
blow-the-man-down-under-the-table job.

Only question now is was that performance
memorable enough to slop over and do it''s
part in begetting a grandson of equal
intellectual amazement.

[skyk-2009]

You forget the Iraqi government has asked us to leave, to come up with an exit date! Staying in Iraq beyond the governments acceptance becomes an unwelcome occupation, good intentions or not!

Posted by tbweb at 11:42 AM : Jul 26, 2008

LOL Yes that is the truth. I saw McCain on CNN and he was asked the question as to what was wrong with the 16 Month date that both Obama and Iraq wanted. It was funny watching him twist in the wind until he finally had to state the EXACT same position Obama has had now for way over a year. Personally give me the Guy who had the vision and judgment NOT to go into the place to begin with.

[skyk-2009]

To Daysrnumbered: Using your logic, FDR was one of the greatest murderers in history.

Posted by downsteamjim at 11:57 AM : Jul 26, 2008

I''m sorry but to compare the Blunder of Iraq with the Great FDR is about as rediculous and anything I have ever heard. I wonder how long it''s going to take the 23% to understand that Bush was lying?

[downsteamjim]

To Daysrnumbered: Using your logic, FDR was one of the greatest murderers in history.

[daysrnumbrd]

Posted by terrorislamv at 10:06 AM : Jul 26, 2008--

Man you have no room to talk. I''''d rather take Barrack Hussein Obama''''s radical associations anytime over Republicans.

Posted by whitemale08 at 11:10 AM : Jul 26, 2008
.............

Here''s a political association that has caused more deaths than virtually any terrorist organization in their entire existence:

Bush + Cheney Halliburton

[txgrouch2006]

bm6005 wondered
I wonder who''''ll get the blame this time for Georgie boy''''s stupidity?!!!!
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How many civilian Hummers and monster SUV''s were on the road during the Clinton years?
How many alternative energy sources were developed during the Clinton years?
How much did our imports of Middle East oil increase during the Clinton years (hint: we were importin ZERO oil from the Middle East when he took office)?
What did Clinton do to encourage people to cut down their growing consumption of oil?

WHO deserves that blame???

[tbweb]

---"the U.S. has doled out almost $860 billion for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world"---

This is kind of off-topic, but does that figure include all the other costs such as the nation-building in Iraq (ie Blackwater), recruitment and retainment bonuses, vet after-care, etc? Like are they low-balling the true cost of the war? I''''ve always wondered about that . . .

Posted by SamTheTVCat at 02:52 AM : Jul 26, 2008,,,

You know full well they are low balling, the other cost you cited are never included, we just eat those cost!

[downsteamjim]

Where are the figures on the most expensive, longest, continuing, and failing war in U.S. history? The War on Poverty is almost a half century old.