What has Reno, Nevada got to show for $1 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan?

As of 10:06 a.m., Sunday, May 30th, the United States will have spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Perhaps it’s a sad sort of poetic justic that this milestone should come as we all celebrate those family members and friends who’ve served our country. But, it couldn’t be a better time to take stock - getting a reality check might be a better way of thinking of it - about our continuing involvement in two wars, despite having elected a president who campaigned as an anti-war president.

Congress goes on vacation, having allowed for a third time this year to allow extended unemployment benefits to lapse. It’s just too expensive.

The long fought health care reform package, estimated at a 10 year cost of $1 trillion has been deemed by opponents as too expensive for America.

A billing pending in Congress will add another $37 billion to this year’s spending.

Representative John Conyers had this to say about what war spending has really cost:

“What could we have purchased with this $1 trillion?

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Let me know when the Right-to-Lifers become anti-war

Then, maybe, I could take them and their message seriously.

I just watched ‘The Hurt Locker’ at a friends house, and according to what I hear, that movie is damn near a documentary. It’s that much of a real look at the damage being done to the Iraqis - and us - in the pursuit of a senseless war.

I mean, if you’re really pro-life, aren’t you mainly concerned about preserving the life that is already here, rather than potential life?

And, how about the Moms and Dads of those little potential humans - that are losing their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan?

When the Pro-Life Anti-Woman’s Choice bunch start marching in protest of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, I might be inclined to think they’re serious rather than a dangerous mob seeking to impose their will.

Throwing shoes rather than rocks.

As the man continued to scream from another room, Bush said: “That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know.”

The man later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Iraqi-owned Al-Baghdadia television based in Egypt.

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