Considering the brilliant work that has been done along the US-Mexico border, including the high tech “virtual fence” that the great minds of Boeing have sold to taxpayers, despite no sign of its ability to track much beyond stray cows, coyotes and perhaps a few dogs, why does anyone think the US ought to spend any more money in Iraq to build some kind of a fence to stop Iranians? Heck, they can’t even manage to cover 10% of the US-Mexico border despite it being right there in the US so how in the world could such a project even be completed in Iraq?

How much more money does Bush want to throw at the problems that he creates?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is lending border patrol and customs officers to help, and some former officers are working here under private contracts. “This is a lot tougher than the Mexican border,” said Army Col. Mark Mueller, who is in charge of U.S. forces advising Iraq’s Department of Border Enforcement and the Iraqi army in this region. “There are leftover mines and munitions everywhere.”

I’m not sure which statement here provides even less confidence between Homeland Security being involved or this project being more difficult than the US-Mexico border. This team is unable to take on any task, big or small, without screwing it up completely. The American middle class is not a bottomless pit of funds for Republican experiments that are always massively expensive failures.