If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, noted that the administration had rejected estimates before the war that an Iraq conflict could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. The administration's new $87 billion request is in addition to the $79 billion that Congress approved last spring.

Addressing Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Levin said "you told Congress in March that `we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.' Talk about rosy scenarios," Levin said.

He said the $87 billion request "is a bitter pill for the American people to swallow."

Lies and revisionist history! That's what our leaders seem to be peddling to us. How can you not be outraged that Bush wants to spend an ADDITIONAL $87 BILLION on a faraway land when Medicare recipiant's are getting dropped, jobs aren't being created, schools can't afford to hire new teachers, millions of Americans are without health care, and the list goes on and on.