What's another $25 billion? Bushco is going to ask for another $25 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why are they asking for more money? For starters, because they didn't include a dime in the Defense budget to pay for military operations in either place. Very responsible. And secondly, because Iraq is one huge clusterfuck, and the a-holes who got us into this mess have no idea how to get us out of it, and so let's just keep dumping money into it and give Halliburton some more contracts while we're at it. It's not like we have a record deficit or anything like that.
Here's how I like to try and grasp the mega-huge-largeness of that figure. I imagine a stack of one million dollar bills. I then imagine 25,000 similar stacks. And then I imagine swimming through all that money, just like Scrooge McDuck.
And can someone please explain to me why Paul Wolfowitz still has a job? Afterall, this war is his baby. And he's the huckster who has given us such quotes as these:

"There's a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
"It is entirely possible that in Iraq, you have the most pro-American population that can be found anywhere in the Arab world."
"If you're looking for a historical analogy, it's probably closer to post-liberation France [after World War II]."
"The notion that it would take several hundred thousand American troops just seems outlandish."
"I am a delusional little man hellbent on destroying the world."

Okay, so maybe Wolfowitz didn't say the last thing there, but I think it fits.