Where’s the outrage?

So The Kansas City Star on Aug. 30 had a front-page story expressing concern about the U.S. “squandering” $5 billion in Iraq.

Odd — I don’t remember The Star having stories with similar headlines as we squander $1.5 trillion (or more) through TARP and the federal stimulus. What a perfect example of misplaced priorities.

Lee Larson
Prairie Village

Comments

[Greghand]

The editorial board is a rubber stamp for anything a Democrat promotes or approves. I think it's funny that the Stars Board would get together and decide what they think about trying to promote on politcally as if there were at least one brain in the room! Name anything the board approved of from a Republican and I'll show you a liar!

[whispering_to_kc]

By the way ...

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/01/99997/gates-iraq-outcome-will-always.html#ixzz0yNGqmixK

"The problem with this war for, I think, many Americans is that the premise on which we justified going to war proved not to be valid, that is Saddam having weapons of mass destruction," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters as he hopped from one stripped-down U.S. military base to another greeting American troops.

"So when you start from that standpoint, then figuring out in retrospect how you deal with the war — even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States — it will always be clouded by how it began."

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Squandered effort. Larson is a perfect example of misplaced priorities.

[whispering_to_kc]

We've squandered $2 trillion (and counting) in Iraq, not $5 billion.

$2 trillion represents almost $7000 for each American. $2 trillion that bought us nothing but heartache and continued troubles.

[Brandon Lyons]

How often do you read the star cause the companies that received tarp money are rushing to pay back the government because of the stipulations that where placed on it........oh I forget were not supposed to tell facts or give Obama credit we all know everything he's done is bad for our country my bad....