Videos: How Is This Helping?

With the recent news that Robert Gates, the new Secretary of Defense, has requested an additional $190 Billion in funding for the Iraq War, we are left asking: how is this really helping? Note further that this doesn't cover the increase in spending necessary to care for those whom 'We The People' must now care for specifically because they became disabled in the line of duty -- and that's not a duty I would have this great nation shirk. Regardless of whether you think the conditions the men and women you'll see in the first video are justified by the 'need to be in Iraq', I ask you: how is that helping to protect us from what you'll find in the second?

Video the first:

Video the second: