As the cost of the catastrophe in Iraq and the U.S. defense budget continue to spiral out of control without oversight, let alone real opposition, veteran defense journalist George Wilson performs the important task of bringing the matter to the attention of Capitol Hill. The failure of the Democratic Congress to provide even a speed bump to these developments will surely go down in history as a sad accompaniment to the tender mercies of President George W. Bush’s handling of national security policy. George Wilson’s prescient commentary appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of Congress Daily.
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Two Trillion Dollars for Worse Security October 10, 2007 As the cost of the catastrophe in Iraq and the U.S. defense budget continue to spiral out of control without oversight, let alone real opposition, veteran defense journalist George Wilson performs the important task of bringing the matter to the attention of Capitol Hill. The failure of the Democratic Congress to provide even a speed bump to these developments will surely go down in history as a sad accompaniment to the tender mercies of President George W. Bush’s handling of national security policy. George Wilson’s prescient commentary appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of Congress Daily.
As the cost of the catastrophe in Iraq and the U.S. defense budget continue to spiral out of control without oversight, let alone real opposition, veteran defense journalist George Wilson performs the important task of bringing the matter to the attention of Capitol Hill. The failure of the Democratic Congress to provide even a speed bump to these developments will surely go down in history as a sad accompaniment to the tender mercies of President George W. Bush’s handling of national security policy. George Wilson’s prescient commentary appeared in the Oct. 1 issue of Congress Daily.
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