Here’s an amazing fact: the war in Iraq costs the U.S. $5.6 billion a month. A billion, we know, is a thousand million. Think of it. Take a million dollar bill, burn it, then do that again, and again – and again – until you’ve burnt more than five thousand of ‘em. Then do that again next month. And next month, and next month…

Man, I know we’re an affluent nation, but we sure know how to spend it. (Oh, but we don’t have enough for student loans. We had to cut that program. Huh?)

I’ve always thought – and I’m sure this is a cockeyed plan, so pay no attention – that we’d be better off just buying some of these desperate countries we have misguided adventures in. How much can an acre of land in Iraq cost? At $5.6 billion a month for three years, we could have bought the entire country acre by acre by now.

But the serious question is: who’s responsible for our tragedy in Iraq, and why are those people still in power?