You know, when the Shrub got into office in 2000 I said to myself, "What harm could he possibly do? I mean, my tax dollars are gonna stay in the country one way or another."

Then my taxes started pouring into Afghanistan, by the guy who said that he was not a nation-builder. Probably not his strongest point, but it was only a few billion dollars here and there. Probably nothing I'd notice more than a few less cops on the beat in my neighborhood and a few more pot-holes on I-695. I'm a good American, I can handle it.

Then my taxes started pouring into Iraq in the hundreds of billions of dollars after our hunt for the magical disappearing weapons of mass deception, but I figured ok well all of Dick Cheney's friends in Halliburton have 2/3rds of the contracts anyway so that money is basically coming back into the US in salaries and payroll taxes (even if the bulk of the corporate profits are being stored overseas in Bermuda) and even if 1000 American boys and girls have to die in the desert. How bad could it be?

Then Shrub gets up on the podium for his State of the Union address, and what does he say?

"We're going to Mars!"

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