The first time "and heads explode" was of course the talk about having to close military bases all around the world..

really it is a first in MSM american media.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

There was a story about the Obama people slashing weapons systems the other day.  This would provide some nice cover.

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This is to say nothing of the fact that, in a new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the savings from getting out of Iraq ($120bn annually) would free up more than enough money in the budget for the health care bill ($75bn) and the energy bill ($15bn).  Now that still obviously leaves us with a hole, since much of it is off-budget borrowing, but still, our capacity to do what we need to do is easily there before he's even repealed the Bush tax cuts.  And, if needed, he could scrap the middle- and working-class tax cuts -- not likely for now but certainly doable once things get moving again -- and easily put us in pretty good shape.

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