Wolfowitz

PTS reader Ricknplano emailed in these great thoughts . . .

On the Wednesday June 23 issue of Hardball on MSNBC the guest was Paul Wolfowitz. By way of explaining the high cost of the Halliburton and other contracts associated with the war in Iraq he said we should remember it was also used to repair 200,000 schools and 2,200 hospitals. I later checked the transcript to confirm I had heard him right. Well, as someone who understands third grade math I knew he had to be either intentionally fabricating the numbers or else totally clueless. The numbers he used would mean we have, in one year, built or repaired one entire school for every 30 school kids in Iraq. And Iraq would have one new or repaired hospital for every 11,000 people. In Plano, an affluent city of 220,000, we have two hospitals.

The scary part is that he is in charge. The second scary part is that the reporter did not challenge a thing he said.

Word!

-PTS