Deathwatch
Number of US soldiers killed during the war in Iraq:138
Number of US soldiers killed since the war in Iraq "ended": 139 and counting

Good job we found all those weapons of mass destruction, otherwise some people might start to argue that they'd died in vain. Never mind the economic cost.

Maybe two birds (fish? ducks?) can be killed with one stone by sending the 3million Americans to have lost jobs in the last three years out to colonise and rebuild Iraq. Then their taxes can be used to help stave off that half-trillion dollar budget deficit the US is staring at.

And all this with an election just around the corner.