Inspector general report: U.S. cannot account for $1.7 billion spent in Iraq

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13. I don't know why we're getting excited about this NOW

This is old news. We've known about this waste and profiteering for five or six years, and we've known about the extent of it. Bringing it up now may feel good in terms of painting the Bush administration as bad guys, or bashing Republicans, but we've got to move past that.

Bashing Republicans feels good, but it is not really going to solve the problems we face. The party we support has got to start coming up with and talking about the policies we support going forward. Health care reform was great, but it didn't solve the jobs problem, and bashing Republicans isn't going to solve that problem either.

We may think that if we bash Republicans hard enough long enough that we can get them out of office, but that's not going to work. Does people calling Obama a Kenyan or a Socialist make you want to vote Republican? It doesn't work that way. Calling people names and talking about how bad they are does not make them want to join your side.