Arguing for Republican votes, Barney Frank points out:
The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the one in Iraq.
If we’re going to talk about spending, I have a problem when we leave out that extraordinary expensive, damaging war in Iraq, which has caused much more harm than good in my judgment.
I don’t understand from my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping to get health care, that’s wasteful spending. But that war in Iraq, that’s going to cost us over a trillion dollars, yeah, I wish we hadn’t done that we would have been in a lot better shape fiscally.
…self-purported fiscal conservatives should not be entitled to selective memory.