The bill, approved in the Senate by a 100-0 vote, totals $448 billion and is headed for Bush's desk for a signature.
The Iraq war is costing about $8 billion a month.
Terrorism "is not our fault," Bush said, paraphrasing recent comments by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "You do not create terrorism by fighting terrorism."
Bullshit!
That depends on what you are doing to fight terrorism.
If you think our money is being well-spent, here's $75 million wasted on a police academy in Iraq.
A $75-million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partly demolished, federal investigators have found.
The Baghdad Police College, hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to help Iraqis take control of the country's security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rain from ceilings in student barracks, floors heave inches off the ground and water drips so profusely in one room it was dubbed "the rainforest."
The midterm elections are 5 weeks from next Tuesday. Housecleaning is in order.
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