Well you're right, WE, as in the US citizens are paying for the war, and it is costing us BILLIONS, which makes anything the politicians do stateside regarding the economic crisis seem preety damn redundant to me... "yeah yeah, we'll keep throwing the majority of our "defense" spending into this gaping black hole thousands of miles from the homeland that's already experiencing economic collapse... We gotta get those terrorists!!" .. "but we need national healthcare, and that's going to cost billions too!" ..."more taxes?" .. "ok! We wouldn't want to take even 1% off the top of the ''defense budget!" ... Politicians get paid. Politicians get votes and they get reelected.
Reading your posts I know you couldn't possibly believe what you posted before.
There are handfulls of people who became EXTREMELY wealthy ONLY because the invasion of the middle east took place.
We're paying for it in money and American lives. (not to mention Iraqi lives)