I agree with just about everything above. I think that Amy is great, but am disappointed if she really did support the invasion of Libya (though there were other "progressives" who allegedly supported it). Without taking on the "right and wrong" of it, one (especially if politically progressive) should at the very least object to the President's unilateral (meaning among branches of government) invading it when (1) we are so "broke" that thousands of teachers are being laid off, millions are unemployed for months, hundreds of thousands (if not also millions) are forclosed on, etc., etc., and (2) France and the UK already went in and can more easily handle the job without bankrupting their economies (according to the rosy scenarios that held at the time of the initial invasions, even if they proved to be untrue in the end), since they were/are not currently "on the brink," economically. And, of course, there is the hypocrisy of defending Libya at recent international hearings, to say nothing of arming their leader to the teeth (didn't we do that too?), but those are topics better left for another day.
A final, and more imortant topic, that may dismay some fans of the president, concerns his testicles. He has 'em just like the rest of us. What is different is his interests --they are not the same as ours! Glenn Greenwald, one of the very best writers on the scene today, has written extensively on this topic (see Salon.com) and the Wikileaks treasure trove of cables validates Glenn's views conclusively. It has long been the case that leaders of the "opposing" two parties have always differed in their policy views almost strictly on domestic policy only, with converging views (especially privately, but sometimes even publicly) in foreign policy or related international affairs. Didn't Nixon expand Johnson's (or Kennedy's, or Eisenhower's, or Truman's --depending on how far back one wants to go) war in Southeast Asia? Didn't every single administration since Eisenhower support toppling the Cuban government? (possibly excepting Carter) Didn't Clinton push hard for NAFTA after campaigning against it? And, didn't Obama expand the Bush wars? I could go on, but it's all useless; we're fu .. I mean, we're sunk. Big time!

This is in a quote from Joe Stiglitz - should be verifiable as an error by three orders of magnitude by looking at the source. Amy? $5B is chump change when it comes to war profiteering.

I sit and read all this and just... well, I'm 73 years old, work hard to get these messages out....mostly on twitter as "palsimon"....then, I just sit here and cry....feeling so helpless watching the people of the world suffer so much. I am dying with cancer, not much longer to suffer. But the other people in the world....it just makes me cry.

Read again, Donnie. Contract = 7 Billion. War costs = 5 Trillion.

$7 billion is what the pentagon used in taxpayer funds to help get the war started. $5 trillion is what the taxpayer will have spent so far in this never funded quagmire in the almost 10 years. What is the cost in lives lost or maimed? Stop socializing the killing and debt.
Support the troops: Bring them home! Tax the corporations profiteering!

amy is no pacificst herself.comments on her show suggest that she is all in favor of the libyan assault. whatever you may think of kadaffi,(the guy the west loves to hate) he is the ruler of a country composed of tribes. this is a civil war and should be left to the libyans. the european countries that buy libyan oil,france and italy especially,are run by right wing facists,sarkozy and burlesconi. this plan of supporting the rag tag rebels has been in place for many years. the arab spring was their opening . ah, that libyan oil is so sweet. i know. nato is protecting the libyan people from the libyan leader who is slaughtering his own people. so launching missiles on tripoli is not killing libyans. maybe obama should send his daughters on a vacation to tripoli if he thinks that us missiles are not killing innocent civilians.

If the cost of the two wars is 5 Trillion and the contract to KBR was 7 Trillion; where is the other 2 Trillion?

Amy*Please change BILLION TO TRILLION.Marinemomof3Thank you :)

To end a war, Ike said: "I will go to Korea!"

To end a war, Gene McCarthy said: "I will go to the Pentagon."

To make war on the American people, John Boehner said: "I will go to the Tea Party."

I have been saying this everytime I see the national debate on the debt crisis. Those ready to criticize and pick at the Obama administration are the very ones that place value and equate loss of human life under the guise of "freedom" while returning soldiers are silenced, ignored and not even given the proper tools for battle. The pro-war crowd includes the religious right, the Tea Party mobs and the so-called patriotic capitalists crowds that scream socialism everytime you question why money is being spent on defense, CEOs get bonuses and American corporations overseas are not taxed as foreign businesses, as they should. I guarantee that if American Indian tribes open shops overseas, the US government would tax the crap out of them as they already do here on lands that tribes have occupied for milleniums.

My fellow citizens like to boasts about being the most free and liberty filled nation on the planet, yet here we are, 11 years past 2000, and I see only passive and sheepish taxpayers working to feed an obese and violent government?

Regardless of what one thinks of the wars, it is unpatriotic to pay the trillions for the wars by cutting Social Security , Medicare/Medicade, and education etc.We should be raising a tax to support our sons/daughters, brothers/sisters fathers/mothers and friends and neighbors in the military rather then cutting our support to children, elderly, sick, and poor to pay for the defense of the nation.

must be because 4.9 billion is just a yearly bonus for a top hedge fund manager.

Hard to get the truth across when little facts, like "billion" or "trillion," get confused or mistaken. Sloppy. Nonetheless, Amy is one of the VERY few voices in the U.S. Empire willing to speak truth to power. Keep it up.

General Butler, I believe, was the United States Marine who almost single handedly thwarted an attempted overthrow of Roosevelt's presidency by a group of bankers and industrialists. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor on two seperate actions and was also the recipient of the Marine Corp Brevit Medal. A combat tested Marine officer who survived the horror of war and despised those who would profit from the deaths of his young Marines.

Yep, $5 trillion. Strange mistake for these pages.

Hmmmm

"Ac­cord­ing to Nobel Prize-win­ning econ­o­mist Joe Stiglitz, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan alone will ex­ceed $5 bil­lion."

You mean $5 trillion.