IT'S ONLY MONEY (us taxpayers)

Remember Paul Bemer. He was the GW appointed dictator of Iraq after shock and awe. The same man GW awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to. The same man who decided all by himself that it would be good to disband the Iraqi army and refuse Baathist employment, you know school teachers, engineers, plumbers, anyone who had to join the party under Sadam's reign to have a job.
During his tenor as Emperor of Iraq he requested and received 12,000,000,000$ cash in U.S. one hundred bills. I forget exactly the tonnage, and I can't do the math, but I believe it was 119 tons of one hundred dollar bills. Shrink wrapped, stacked on pallets and sent via military troop transport planes to Iraq. It turns out 8,400,000,000$ went missing. The remaining 3,600,000,000$ went for infrastructure, administrative costs and waste according to Henry Waxman's oversight committee. Just as a side note, most of the infrastructure built with that money is now rubble.
Alright, so what's the point of my rant if we've already spent 1/2 Trillion dollars in Iraq. 12,000,000,000$ doesn't seem like that much comparatively.
Let's get real for a minute. 12 billion is a large number. I earn more than some and certainly not as much as others. I do not 'want' for anything material, this is a privilege.
I don't know about where you live, but here our schools are hurting. We have to close buildings, cut the late bus, pay for every extracurricular activity and hold fund raisers all the time. I really have never whined about paying taxes, I know that there is government waste built into our system. I forget who said it,( maybe Goldwater), but he said," A million here and a million there of waste, and soon you're talking about real money". Well now we're talking billions.
I would gladly pay for the war in Iraq if it was the right war at the right time. GW has mismanaged this folly to the point of criminality. Not only our treasure, 3400+ lives have we paid. More than 3 times the amount of people that live in my little town. Every man, woman and child gone 3 times over. For nothing!
We could have at least saved the taxpayers some money by not paying for those flights full of cash to Iraq. We could have just transferred the money directly to Haliburton.