For everyone's sakes I hope there aren't anymore preemptive strikes/wars any time soon. Bush keeps saying we'll win and finish the mission in Iraq, but hasn't explained where the money is going to come from. I kind of miss Ari Fleischer, at least he made it seem that the actions were grounded in some kind of crediblity (even though that credibility is obscure / not for the American people's inspection). The deficit is running close to 400$ billion a year, NOT including the continued occupation of Iraq.
And they're telling soliders that the tour of duty will be about 12 months. Twelve months!! That's insane! My thoughts go out to Xavier of SX (come back in one piece).
For what it's worth, if we let the U.N. poke around a few months more, we could've had some funding from other countries. At least a little. Right now, there are ~21,000 non American troops in Iraq, and *we're* paying for them!