The military budget was defended today in a press conference by Donald Rumsfeld. He argued that it would take decades to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure, despite previous targets. Just another thing we didn’t fully consider before going to war. Decades seem like a huge amount of time. So at least we’ll be paying for the reconstruction, right? Of course not, we don’t want them to become “dependant.” If our military money should be going anywhere, it’s to reconstruction. And we haven’t heard much about troop cuts, despite a successful election. I’ll hand it to the interim government; they did achieve a seemingly fair election. We should be leaving, like everyone wants us to. April 29^th is the march against the war in NYC (and elsewhere I believe). I’ll be there, I hope everyone can be there too!