What has $25B in reconstruction money achieved in Iraq?  Let’s see: 

• 43% of the population lives in absolute poverty
• Prior to war, 19% of children suffered malnutrition; today 28%
• last year 75% of elementary-aged kids went to school; now 30%
• prior to war 50% lacked access to clean water; now 70%
• only 50 of 142 primary health care centers are open to the public

So, to paraphrase Reg and Xerxes from “Life of Brian”:

Reg: But apart from the poverty, the malnutrition, the lack of education, no clean water and inadequate health care, what have the Americans ever done for us?

Xerxes:  Brought war? 

Not only that, if McCain wins in November, they’ll have another hundred years of it.