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Pres. Obama: Counterfeiter-in-Chief?

This will be tough for you to understand, but sending money down the rathole in Iraq and Afghanistan is the least of our worries.

Check true or false to the following. Maybe you'll at least think about the consequences of war:

1. More than 4000 mostly young American lives were lost in a war we have yet to define.

2. An untold number of Iraqi lives have been lost from relentless shelling of an urban population.

3. By year three of this war even the most fervent war supporter saw the coalition of the willing dwindle to a precious few.

4. For the next two generations we will be paying the bills as grateful Americans to the more than 100,000 war veterans who were damaged by this war.

Since you pegged the reason for going to war as the last one that Bush could dreamup -- unseating Saddam -- I'll ask you:

Were the Khmer Rouge terrorists? Was Idi Amin a madman? Pick your dictator and let the wars rage. If you really want to know the source for Hussein's weaponry and WMD, go back to the 1980-1984 period of U.S. support for Iraq against Iran and you will find numerous reports of extensive weapons sales, chemical stockpiles and even photos of Donald Rumsfeld making nice-nice with this hated dictator who killed his own people.


If you can't learn the lessons from recent history, you my friend will repeat them.


On Mar 26 01:05 PM milkchaser wrote:

> The cost of the war in Iraq and the cost of the "stimulus package"
> are comparable. But the stimulus package will be spent in less time.
> The war in Iraq arguably enhanced national security. The stimulus
> package was predominately a payoff to various Democratic constituencies.
> I doubt that either the war or excessive Federal gov't spending will
> result in economic growth, but at least the war accomplished something:
> it's hard to argue that the world would be safer if Saddam were still
> above ground and breathing.
>
> Besides which, Bush is gone. It's all on Obama now.