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The liberal MSM gets it wrong again with this piece:

For the United States, the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement designed to control greenhouse gases. For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 billion.

These numbers show that the Bush administration was unrealistically optimistic in its prewar prediction that the total cost would be about $50 billion.

And the same numbers raise questions about the Bush administration's claim that the cost of the Kyoto Protocol would be prohibitive, causing (in President Bush's own words) "serious harm to the U.S. economy."

Yet again, they don't take into consideration the cost of enviro-whackos roaming the streets of every suburb to confiscate SUVs, thus forcing the baby Jesus to sit in the back of a sedan without the DVD flat-panel he's gotten so accustomed to. That'd be pretty expensive.

In fact, what this article shows is quite the opposite, it shows the sheer brilliance of President Bush's visionary thinking. By going to war with Iraq, Bush not only got rid of Saddam Hussein, he also helped raise the price of crude oil naturally--not artificially through increased taxes--thus creating consumer demand for efficiency and Kyoto-like reductions in greenhouse gases. In effect, Bush killed two birds with one $300 billion package.