"Equipment is wearing out five times faster than normal, and maintenance and procurement expenditures were intentionally put off by the Bush Administration and GOP Congress to mask the true costs of the [Iraq] war, on the mistaken assumption apparently that we wouldn’t be in this predicament three years down the road. "They were wrong, and we are broke, in hock up to our asses to the Chinese, while the Bush Administration and GOP Congress want to make the upper income and Paris Hilton tax cuts permanent. "That's my idea of treasonous behavior." - - - Steve Soto