Air Force One, the president's distinctive powder blue-and-white jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony "? a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.
But in many ways this was a victory lap without a victory: Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have been killed in a war that has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28220165
576 billion in cash..so far and the country isn't rebuilt. Just think what a package that would make to get the economy going again. But we did find that one WMD...didn't we. Wonder why a guy with no experience won , now?
