aside from stackin silver dollars, or pinchin pennies....
even if for oil, and maybe especially for oil
the war is worth ever friggin cent!
but we know better than that, now don't we
we know that oil is a small part of why we are in that war.
we talk about leading the call of democracy by example, how can we do so
when we turn our backs on the people of the world who are less fortunate than us
that are victimized by a cruel dictator? not just a few, but hundreds of thousands if not millions.
if we have learned anything from history, america will always come to the aid (eventually) to those
in need,
maybe a bit quicker if they happen to live in an area that will become destabilized if we wait, maybe in
an area where destabilization would jeopardize our energy flow, and certainly when the area happens
to also harbor those that would seek to destoy us by whatever means available.
you think it is bad now,, just thank God for GWB that he is president and not I!
if it were up to me, i would have 3 times the ground forces there, and march border to border
flushing out ever friggin one of them terrorists, those that support them, those that feed them, and those
that even looked funny.
there would be no or very little press allowed, and water board interrogation would be an olympic event!
yes it may be the root of a recession here before it is over, (but we were due for one anyway)
and recession is a bit uncomfortable, but far easier to accept than seeing another 911, or the loss of over half our energy.
or having to look oneself in the mirror while some crackpot lunatic dictator and his son's seek out, butcher, mame, rape and kill
even one more man, woman or child.
millions/billions/trillions are numbers that are hard for most to understand, and rightfully so
but in reality that is the numbers that countries deal in on a daily basis
just as we deal in 20's 50's and 100's
i don't like paying for insurance either, but i can get it
governments pay for it with larger premiums and with their sons and daughters.
some of us complain vehemently about the monitary cost of the war, all the while there
are those that volunteer to go and fight this ungodly task. is it so terrible that we bear
the weight of some debt? i would gladly pay the taxes needed to support this effort,
far easier to do so than stand up and take a bullet for the team.
thank god for those servicepeople one and all, for that matter thank god for all servicemen
those that are active and those who have fought for our country no matter whether or not i agree'd with
the premise.
i don't expect that to make sense to all of you, maybe not many of you
but that is the reality
and of course i too wish it were different
bob g