Comments on: Bush: Don’t bug me with those pesky facts http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/16/bush-dont-bug-me-with-those-pesky-facts/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/16/bush-dont-bug-me-with-those-pesky-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-8452 Jim Booth Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:23:42 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/16/bush-dont-bug-me-with-those-pesky-facts/#comment-8452 And every damned penny of it so Bush and Cheney's oil business buddies can rake in one last load of cash before they leave office - so they can bully their way into the coming energy technologies - and get a head start on charging us for friggin' sunshine..... And every damned penny of it so Bush and Cheney’s oil business buddies can rake in one last load of cash before they leave office – so they can bully their way into the coming energy technologies – and get a head start on charging us for friggin’ sunshine…..

]]> By: Russ Wellen http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/16/bush-dont-bug-me-with-those-pesky-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-8439 Russ Wellen Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:18:59 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/16/bush-dont-bug-me-with-those-pesky-facts/#comment-8439 Or as Christopher Dickey writes at Newsweek: <blockquote>"In an effort to make those figures comprehensible, the [Joint Economic Committee of Congress] tells us that for "the $432 million we spend in Iraq every day"—note, that is $432 million a day, per diem, seven days a three-billion-dollar week, or, looking at it another way, $18 million an hour, $300,000 a minute, $5,000 a second, and so on, ad nauseam."</blockquote> Or as Christopher Dickey writes at Newsweek:

“In an effort to make those figures comprehensible, the [Joint Economic Committee of Congress] tells us that for “the $432 million we spend in Iraq every day”—note, that is $432 million a day, per diem, seven days a three-billion-dollar week, or, looking at it another way, $18 million an hour, $300,000 a minute, $5,000 a second, and so on, ad nauseam.”

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