Google News: "COST OF CONQUERING and occupying Iraq: $65 billion, give or take. Cost of rebuilding and pacifying Iraq as well as the odd corner of Afghanistan: another $87 billion, for now"

And the costs keep going up... in both $$$ and lives. Does anyone else wonder how the hell we got in this situation and how the hell do we get out! We need new blood in Washington not spilt blood in the mideast.