of it subcontracted out to private contractors. that s very troubling. that s always the dog whistle right there. one of the reasons i wanted to do this and really talk about the true cost of war is part of what strax me is we talk about how much it costs to send men and women to war but they never calculate or think about when those young men and women come back, and are in their 20s and will need care for many, many years, what does that cost? that s never factored in to or discuss. you re saying long-term thinking wasn t deployed when we invade iraq? i m just putting it out there. we re still paying for the iraq war. we had eight years of this george bush presidency where we had a credit card with no spending limits. now the bill has arrived in your mailbox and it is called astart. people who cheered this war in the first place have a lot of nerve complaining and blaming some guy who showed up