the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week

Money that is boosting the money in AMERICAN Citizens pocketbooks. War is pumping money into the economy. War is kind. You will not find many illegal aliens on the payrolls of:

US STEEL
BOEING
HALIBURTON
FLOURE
GRUMMAN
NORTHROP
U.S. MILITARY FORCES and support services

Those dollars are reinvested into the pocketbooks of American Families, who pay taxes and spend their well earned money in America. As a "socialist" no-one expects you to have the faintest farthing of a concept about economics.