With all due respect ~ all I hear is the same anti-war / anti-Bush retoric.
The rhetoric may sound the same but the underlying reasoning is different. The only reason the left/Democrats are against the war is not because they have logically thought about it, no, they are against it because they had to find something to complain about so that they could promote their own party. The war was a convenient conversation piece.
I don't care about the Democrat vs Republican rivalry, I care about how policies affect the day to day life of Americans, including myself. If someone wants to bomb people somewhere far away I honestly couldn't care less but when I'm forced to pay for it and the economy on which I depend is forced to its knees as a result I will surely be against whatever is causing it. I don't care if it's a war on terrorism, a war on drugs, a war on education or a war on poverty. If any of those things pose a serious threat to our economy and currency I will be opposed to them, because as I said, when all is said and done, the economy and our currency will be the final determination in our way of life and standard of living. We could kill every terrorist in the world and eliminate hunger but we'll go broke doing it and being frightened of towel wearing folks on the other side of the world won't seem as bad as not being able to buy the things we want and need because our dollars will be worthless.
It's not a matter of being anti-Bush and anti-War but being pro-freedom and pro-free market. Right now we've been spending billions of dollars bombing countries and then spending more billions of dollars rebuilding the same bridges and infrastructure that we bombed, while we can't even afford to fix roads and bridges at home. This situation is completely absurd.
I wish people were more passionate about our economy and dollar than about our military power. We are living beyond our means and fighting wars we cannot afford. Sooner or later something has got to give.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Nobody could have predicted that the Roman Empire would one day fall apart from it's own carelessness. And yet here we are today, going down the same path. :duh:
Here is a thought: What if we had taken half of the money that we've spent on the war and put that up as the bounty on Osamas bin Laden. I am certain that some enterprising individual, if not a fellow towel wearer, would have done whatever is necessary to catch/betray Osama. Heck, 10 billion dollars would be more than enough incentive to track him down.
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