Just heard a statistic this morning. Maintaining our forces in Iraq is costing one billion dollars a week. [To our British friends, that's one thousand million.]

At the same time, many domestic programs such as Head Start are being cut, and funding for a whole variety of programs promised in various campaign speeches, press conferences, and in the State of the Union speech are not forthcoming. The reason, we are told, is that there are insufficient funds.

And regarding one of my points above, read this and think about it.

Don Firth