Friday, July 04, 2008 | 8:54 a.m.

More Taxpayer Dollars Down the Drain

by Robert Scheer

A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there, and soon you're talking real money. But when it comes to reporting on what the Bush war legacy has cost American taxpayers, the media have been shockingly indifferent to the highest run-up in military spending since World War II.

Even the devastating defense spending audit released Monday by the Government Accountability Office documenting the enormous waste in every single U.S. advanced weapons system failed to provoke the outrage it ...

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Posted by: liz
Comment: #1
Thu Apr 3, 2008 2:18 PM

When I heard Busheney use the term "holy war" and saw him lick his chops and his eyes glazed over with glee, (Described by the press as a "very emotional Bush".) I was very afraid. I was assured this country had the best trained best equipped military to "defend our nation". What did they do? Why what most American's would do when invited to an event. They went shopping! Of course, they shopped with the companies they were in bed with, what are friends for? My opinion has never been popular because I believed the Busheney's manipulated events and situations in a self-serving manner to get us into this sucking morass. Of course the costs of their toys would not be revealed. I suppose they thought at the end of their term they could again justify their evil deeds and explain away the expenditures with the same manipulative fear rhetoric which has allowed them carte blanche to emasculate this great nation. Thanks for your revealing article.

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