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[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] program is fair enough (although keep in mind that Obama is ramping up the war in Afghanistan while he's ramping down the war in Iraq). But whatever you think about the wisdom of Bush's tax cuts, it takes a very statist frame of mind to view letting people keep more of their own money as a government program, let alone a wasteful and ineffective one.

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[aozuwei] federal stimulus check schedule: Obama speech to Congress focuses ...: We’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we’re not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don’t use. We will root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn’t make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.

[RBO] Stimulated yet? « RBO: Glenn Reynolds added: “Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell in the after-speech spin points out that in the first month of Obama’s administration Congress has spent more money than it spent on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Katrina relief over the past seven years.”

[CollegiateTimes.com News] CollegiateTimes.com - Column: Humanitarian missions hardly qualify ...: Phrasing Iraq in a humanitarian context is pretty underhanded considering we used his "support for al-Qaida" and his "extensive WMD arsenal" (both of which have since been disproved) as the primary reasons for going to war. ...

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[Group News Blog] Group News Blog: Obama: President's Address to Congress: We’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we’re not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don’t use. We will root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn’t make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.

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[Hot Air TV] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Just how big is this stimulus, anyway?: The Iraq War figure uses the mathematics of its critics, which includes the normal cost of the armed forces during that time regardless of their deployment — but so much the better for this comparison.  We could buy more of North America and do another moon shot, and we’d not only spend less than half of the current stimulus, we’d create a lot more jobs, too.  The so-called stimulus costs more than the Iraq War and the New Deal put together.

[Saline Creek Gazette] Remarks of President Barack Obama ”” Address to Joint Session of ...: We’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we’re not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don’t use. We will root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn’t make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.

[Bryn Mawr Classical Review] Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2009.02.25: Third, in my own contribution, my point in bringing up (1) the universal service of Athenian males, (2) the large numbers of men needed for campaigning from 480 BCE down to the Sicilian expedition and beyond, (3) the remarkable fact of Aristophanic comedies and Athenian tragedies like the Trojan Women being performed during the war (in contrast to the lack of any movies about Vietnam--with the exception of "The Green Berets"--until after the fall of Saigon), and (4) the mere fact of public funerals with carts of the dead was to contrast those features of 5th-century warfare with (4) the generally accepted prohibition, during our Presidential-Use-of-Armed-Force-in-Iraq, of even showing photos of flag-draped coffins, with (2 and 1) the all-volunteer reduced-size army that leaves most American males and their families completely detached from the consequences of war, and with (3) the jingoism that at that point in the Presidential-Use-of-Armed-Force in Iraq had successfully kept Hollywood from producing films that would bring the truth of the war home to the American public.

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