Iraq was awash in cash - in dollar bills. Piles and piles of money. We played football with some of the bricks of $100 bills before delivery. It was a wild-west crazy atmosphere, the likes of which none of us had ever experienced.

We're spending $6 billion to $7 billion a month in Iraq -- that's not efficient spending of defense money.

It shows the brazenness of the people who were around those sums of money and what they thought they could get away with.

They're certainly beginning to spend more money on the course. I think the people who play are pretty impressed.

We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.

The money was always going into Iraq.