Across the country, we are running out of water. Water. Today in California, we find that we are running out of firefighters. And around the world, to differing degrees, we are running out of oil. According to The Guardian we hit peak oil in 2006 and output will continue to fall 7% a year, all while world demand skyrockets. Most agree that this is a big problem: we can say goodbye to cars, plastics, anything manufactured, and anything imported from China (in other words, all of your stuff). And it may have been the Bush administration’s sole reason for invading Iraq.

So it is worth noting that oil hit $90 a barrel last week, an all-time high. (Whether altruistic or mercenary, it turns out that this administration can’t accomplish a single goal in Iraq.) Today Bush sent Congress a request for an extra $42 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is in addition to the $147 billion requested earlier this year, as well as the $7.9 billion for the State Department’s Iraq operations. War may not be cheap, freedom may not be free, and democracy might be messy, but even so, who could have predicted that we would make it to $600 billion and counting? Especially when we were told the following:

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary at the time of the war, to Congress: “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

Tags: funding, george w. bush, impotent rage, iraq, military, oil, pure evil, Rachel Powers, reconstruction, War