Cash, Check or Charge?

[ragmop]

Hey kids, look what we got ya!

http://www.costofwar.com/

amazing. and still the elephants spew their battle cry of fiefdom: "tax cuts!"

[Miss Shark]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/14/military.sites.blocked.ap/index.html

"The U.S. Army's not going to pay the bill for you to get on MySpace and YouTube," said Maj. Bruce Mumford, of Chester, Nebraska, who is serving as the brigade communications officer for the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, in Iraq.

"I guess it's a good general policy," Zimmerman said about the ban on MySpace and YouTube. "If people could be trusted not to break operational security, then they wouldn't need to have the policy."

They want their MTV!!!!!!!!!!

[sway2sway]

they need a couple counters alongside it with various tallies of death.

how about cash, check, charge, or your life, or a close family member's life?

perhaps those families that have lost someone have given enough to this assinine war effort?

[sway2sway]

sort of tangential, but it's a Franti interview with a guy from Veterans for peace in NC and they're discussing a billboard they have --'the cost of war'-- amongst other stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NA8q_NFGA

[the duke]

Nice find Rag...now if we could only get that on national TV.... :P

[ragmop]

thanks, duke. i am baffled why we fail to look at the economics of this war in this country. the war opponents need to get the word out and recruit the fiscal-yet-apolitical.

[the duke]

but would some people say 'money well spent" ?? Here in Australia, I reckon we spend WAAAAY too much money on defense rather than hospitals/health care and schools...it's not quite what the US is spending according to that counter thing, but it's still disturbing as to where my taxes are going to.