The New York Times on March 26 carried this headlined article:  RESIDENTS OF SACRAMENTO'S TENT CITY MOVE TO FAIRGROUND by Jesse McKinley:

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Kevin Johnson (of Sacramento) said Wednesday that they would move the Riverside encampment's 125 residents -- down from a peak of 200 -- to the state's fairgrounds until at least July.  The move, according to the governor, will give the homeless a 'dry shelter,' reliable healthcare and warm meals.

"'We're a circus for sightseers,' said Mr. Borchardt, 29, who added a few unprintable adjectives to his comments.  'People are coming here with cameras and then just walking away.  We never had sightseers before.'

"Mr. Johnson, a former NBA basketball player elected to office last year, had taken to giving tours of the camp, which sits on a rugged chunk of land beneath a crisscross of electric wires.  On one recent walkthrough he said a smaller version of tent city had been 'swept under the rug' for years, but had grown in recent months as a building bust pushed normally blue collar people to the brink."

The intense anger and rage lingers that George W. Bush generated with the false claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction threatening the U.S.A.  Adding to his State of the Union fright scenario was Bush's false claim that Saddam Hussein was well on the road to developing nuclear power.  This false proclamation hastily launched the Iraq War.

If the claim of ex-fed chief Alan Greenspan in his book "Age of Turbulence" that "The Iraq war was largely about Oil" is accurate, we must objectively analyze the cost of Iraq oil acquisition.

Was Iraq oil acquisition worth the tragic loss of 4,242, U.S. service personnel whose flag-draped coffins coming back to the U.S.A. were barred by the Pentagon from being shown on TV?

Was it worth the wounding and suffering of over 55,000 U.S. service personnel?