A date which will live in infamy

I don't know if anyone else caught this, but right at the beginning of the President's speech to the Council on Foreign Relations (in which he offered nothing new, tried to take credit for the armed Badr Brigade militia patrolling Najaf, and didn't allow questions despite long-standing CFR tradition), he slipped up trying to give today's date, December 7th, and said "September." He went back and corrected the mistake.

That guy just loves saying September 11th. He'll say Pearl Harbor Day is September 11th now.

The infamy of this day concerns the fact that we're still in this war, and we're about to dump another $100 billion into it:

MURTHA: Twenty years it’s going to take to settle this thing. The American people is not going to put up with it; can’t afford it. We have spent $277 billion. That’s what’s been appropriated for this operation. We have $50 billion sitting on the table right now in our supplemental, or bridge fund we call it, in the Appropriations Committee. They’re going to ask for another $100 billion next year.
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QUESTION: Can we come back to the $100 billion? You said that you expect the military to ask for $100 billion. Where are you getting that figure?

MURTHA: Where I get all my figures: the military.

Now, Gov. Dean has apparently gotten a lot of flack for saying we're not winning in Iraq. Of course, Chuck Hagel said the same thing six months ago. But if the choice is to believe that everything's hunky-dory in Iraq or to believe my eyes and ears, I'm going to go with the primary senses. And my primary senses tell me that another $100 billion, putting the financial cost of this war in three years where Vietnam was in 8, is absolutely staggering. Especially given the meager gains we are told to count as progress over these many months.