Don Firth: "Spending on social programs has increased so much that we would have 3/4 of the current deficit even without liberating Iraq." (ex me)         

"In not many months, the Bush administration squandered the biggest budget surplus this country has ever had..." (ex you)

You did not explain well here. The budget deficit is from social programs advanced, for the most part, by non-conservative types. If I do not understand, it is not because I don't want to.