About time someone said it

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Barney Frank slams Jim DeMint and Republicans on This Week

FRANK: The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq. And one of the things, if we’re going to talk about spending, I don’t — I have a problem when we leave out that extraordinarily expensive, damaging war in Iraq, which has caused much more harm than good, in my judgment.

 

 

And I don’t understand why, from some of my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping somebody get health care, that’s — that’s wasteful spending, but that war in Iraq, which is going to cost us over $1 trillion before we’re through — yes, I wish we hadn’t have done that. We’d have been in a lot better shape fiscally.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That is a whole another show, so I’m going to…

(CROSSTALK)

FRANK: That’s the problem. The problem is that we look at spending and say, “Oh, don’t spend on highways. Don’t spend on health care. But let’s build Cold War weapons to defeat the Soviet Union when we don’t need them. Let’s have hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars going to the military without a check.” Unless everything’s on the table, then you’re going to have a disproportionate hit in some places.

Posted in: economy, Iraq War

8 Thoughts on “About time someone said it”

  1. Ghost of Dude on February 2, 2009 at 8:09 am said:

    Interestingly, what are we doing in Iraq these days?
    Building roads, bridges, schools, power infrastructure, hospitals, etc.

    Why can’t we build them here too?

  2. l3wis on February 2, 2009 at 8:22 am said:

    It was great. Of course George said that would be a discussion ‘at a different show’. Funny how our MSM avoids the Iraq War now like it’s the plague.

  3. Interloper on February 2, 2009 at 8:51 am said:

    BARNEY FRANK is a credible person on this?? OMG. He is one of the people responsible for the financial mess. The king (er, queen) of sweetheart deals and money for a bank in his district??

  4. l3wis on February 2, 2009 at 9:21 am said:

    Yes, Interloper, he is part of the problem, but I think his point about the waste in Iraq was factual.

  5. Ghost of Dude on February 2, 2009 at 9:48 am said:

    In the minds of wingnuts, if they don’t like the person, then they are required to ridicule any idea they have.

  6. l3wis on February 2, 2009 at 10:00 am said:

    Well, Frank has very few good ones, and I wish he would spit the shit out of his mouth before he talks.

  7. John on February 2, 2009 at 10:11 am said:

    The MSM avoids discussing Iraq for several reasons. Chief among those it the MSM all closed their bureaus in Iraq months ago.

  8. l3wis on February 2, 2009 at 12:18 pm said:

    And when they did have them, they were in the Green Zone. They would pay Iraqi freelancers to get footage for them.

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