An Iraq plan: Bribe them.

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Friday February 02, 2007 · 2:06 PM PST

2007/02/02 · 14:06

The White House just announced that it would be requesting $250 billion more for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Most of that will be thrown down the Iraq drain rather than the Afghanistan one, and more money will no doubt be thrown after. It's a fair guess that the Iraq mess alone will cost us at least another $250 billion before it ends (and when it ends, it ends for us, not for them).

Thing is, the population of Iraq is only 26 million and change. $250 billion is nearly ten thousand dollars per Iraqi. $10,000 won't buy much from Halliburton, but to an Iraqi it's serious money. (Iraq's GDP is only $1000 per capita at the current exchange rate.)

I'm sick of being told that nobody can criticize the president unless they have a better plan than he does, so here's one: give the money to the Iraqis.

Manfromporlock

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Thursday February 01, 2007 · 5:40 PM PST

2007/02/01 · 17:40

Thereisnospoon’s excellent diary describes just how crazy an attack on Iran would be; there's not a single conceivable reason to do it, even from the narrow perspective of the neocon nuthouse. It just doesn't make sense.

But people are strange beings; a lot of things we do don’t make sense. We do, however, tend to follow patterns.

Here’s one pattern: warmakers losing a war will:

Convince themselves that someone else is stopping them from winning, and

Compound the disaster by attacking that someone else.

Sound familiar?

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