The current “crisis” reminds us that the last time the Bush-Cheney administration insisted that Congress needed to take emergency action, the result was an unwarranted invasion of Iraq that has cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Has anybody, other than Halliburton or Blackwater, benefited from our occupation of Iraq? Two sayings come to mind: “Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us” and “Act in haste, repent in leisure.”

Ted Curtis

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