Where:
M = Mercenaries
LTR = Less Troops Required (cause real troops aren't needed for non-battle stuff like guarding supply lines, diplomats, and reconstruction projects), which allows Republicans, ahem Joint Chiefs of Staff, to say we can fight this war with the only 1/2 as many troops as we really really need).
P2 = Pork Squared (no bid, the best and tastiest kind, of course)
RD = Donations to Republicans (also 1/2 of P2, thus completing the circle to ignite self sustaining nuclear fission)
FUBAR = FUCKED UP BEYOND ALL constitutional REPAIR
UPDATE #1: Based on Joshua Marshall's fine work at TPM today, the Mercenary Equation has been recalculated as:
FUBAcR = (M+LTR+P2+RD)(NTSHMA)
where NTSMA = Nothing to See Here, Move Along. Or rather, let's hire a Blackwater contractor to conduct the initial investigation of the Blackwater massacre of Iraqi citizens.