Seriously folks, I've written about this a lot and its the root of literally every bit of what's wrong economically in America today, and has been for the last nearly 20 years.
It does not matter who you elect, Democrat or Republican. Neither has changed this and the hand-on-the-stick has changed both in Congress and the White House several times.
This is, with mathematical certainty, the cause of all of the bubble in the markets and it must be halted before it blows up in all of our faces and ruins all -- most importantly and immediately in medical which is driving it on the deficit side. It cannot be sustained as it is why both interest payments and inflation are in fact going vertical -- the first already has, the second is starting to occur now. It is not temporary due to the Iranian situation nor will the resolution of it (which will eventually come) reverse it.
Most people with more than 2 cents worth of brains in their head also know that the US lied about Iraq's nuclear program and specifically claimed that they had material they factually did not. That was an "intelligence****essment" as well (so we're told) and a crap-ton of American men and women had legs blown off and similar screwing around over there. Yes, we did end up with Hussain being sodomized and killed but the predicate was a lie and while we had a decent number of GIs permanently injured and killed Iraq had a ****-ton of people of all ages slaughtered based up on our lies and not a single person was hanged for the bull**** claimed as justification which we later learned wasn't just incorrect -- it was an intentional lie.
In fact that's the root problem here: Nobody has to put their life behind such "intelligence****essments"; if you claim that a nation is "2 weeks" from building and able to use a nuclear weapon and you're wrong or lying you damn well ought to be stripped naked on the national mall and executed with eXacto knives -- nastily, slowly and painfully on national television.