Why Is This Man Smiling?

"In the effort to retaliate against terrorists who hijacked planes six years ago with an arsenal of $3 knives, this year's overall defense budget has been pushed to $657 billion. We are now spending $3 billion a week in Iraq alone, occupying a country that had nothing to do with the tragedy that sparked this orgy of militarism....Numbers are boring, and the media act as if there is no difference between a million and a billion dollars thrown at the military?let alone the trillion-dollar projected cost of the Iraq war."