Expensive Favor

by Charley Reese

One question Americans should be asking the Bush administration is why it wishes to do such an expensive favor for the Iraqi people.

I cannot think of any instance in which the federal government has been willing to spend $1 billion a week and 1,700 lives just to improve conditions in any one of the 50 states. Yet that is exactly what it is doing in Iraq, presumably for no other reason than to bring the blessings of liberty to a people we have bombed, starved, impoverished and vilified for 14 years.