http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml
"I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States -- our United States -- is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.
We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today.
Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what? "
as he talks about recvent events, the hurricanes and the cost of our military, detailing some of those line item costs
he ends with
"We had a great commander in WWII, Dwight Eisenhower. He became President and on leaving the White House in 1961, he said this: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ..."
Well, Ike was right. That's just what's happened."
A dead on take. Cronkite noted on CNN last night that recent events have given us a reason to withdraw from Iraq.....Johnson got the message, will Bush?