It isn’t clear whether or not current law allows the 5 Sept. 11 prisoners to plea guilty when they’re involved in a capital case, but hopefully the laws aren’t that screwed up yet!

Now if Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his buddies could just tell us where Osama is….

The fact that nobody is talking about all the money being used to bailout XYZ corporations here in the states vs. getting us out of Iraq is just mind-numbing!

OpenCRS lays out the numbers for us:

Congress has approved a total of about $864 billion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks:

1. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) – Afghanistan and other counter terror operations,
2. Operation Noble Eagle (ONE) – providing enhanced security at military bases, and
3. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

Of that total, CRS estimates that:

• Iraq will receive about $657 billion (76%),
• OEF about $173 billion (20%), and