The Cold War, Vietnam War and the Korean war never cost this much

[mmarlo 1]

And the budget is mind-boggling. I find it hard to believe we need to spend more beating a bunch of Arab insurgents than we needed during the most expensive year of the nukular buildup during the cold war. Something isn't right with this picture.

Well, at least we're renovating our entire nuclear arsenal and militarizing space, instead of respecting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which requires us to make a 'good faith' effort to reduce the nuclear arsenal. You never know when you might need to nuke the desert! Then again, we have to beat our chest loudly to show China who's boss, while just asking for them to develop their arsenals further, and inciting non-nuclear countries to try to develop nuclear weapons. Isn't it ironic that of the three countries of the "Axis of Evil", we invaded the one that was least likely to have WMD (in the name of WMD), while virtually assuring that the other two countries would develop WMD, which apparently they have done?!

Edited March 21, 2007 by mmarlo

[William33 110]

You never know when you might need to nuke the desert! Then again, we have to beat our chest loudly to show China who's boss, while just asking for them to develop their arsenals further, and inciting non-nuclear countries to try to develop nuclear weapons.

Recipe for disaster. Think world war III.

[Anais Nin 0]

Just think of all that money. The Chinese are now America's largest Creditor. Soon they'll call you Americans to account and say, "You're living beyond your means!" The American Dream will end.

[Heracles 417]

It's hard to call that kind of spending "defense", when it's more than the military expenditures of every other country in the world combined.

Funny how the other day I noticed that the Democrat controlled congress passed an Iraq spending bill where half of the expenses had nothing to do with the Iraq war. I thought they where the party who apparently promised to remove corruption / economic mismanagement from the government.. The sad thing is that there where people out there who actually believed their pre-election BS..

America should not have gone into this war on the grounds that it is using checks it cannot cash to pay for the war.

Edited March 21, 2007 by Infidel

[LaL 418]

Just think of all that money. The Chinese are now America's largest Creditor. Soon they'll call you Americans to account and say, "You're living beyond your means!" The American Dream will end.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

America should not have gone into this war on the grounds that it is using checks it cannot cash to pay for the war.

Indeed - because the people writing those checks will not be around to deal with the economic consequences. They'll leave it up to some other poor sod to clean up the mess.

Next time we have an economic recession you'll know who to blame...

[cbd2cai 0]

I certainly took a major boat-load of flack when I was visiting relatives/friends in Cairo this last trip . . . and the U.S. provides a lot of aid to Egypt thru USAID, so they have reasons to like us . . . but sadly, that has been changing a lot lately. Individual Egyptians do thank me for coming to visit Egypt, but they know that I worry about being safe . . .

And I need to go work off some steam too!! Time to take a walk.

[almaty 19]

the war was a fraud from the start..a knee jerk reaction and a carry-over from 9/11....it was unamerican to even think it was not the right thing to do...but the american public were hood-winked into a war made on false information and to this day, the bush admin. has no exit plan///4 years since the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...banner hung from the aircradt carrier as Bush exited the jet fighter...

the fall out of $$ an US debt is beyoung my comprehension...and the lost of lives there..were sadly wasted... and so far, i see no accomplishments except chaos in a divided country

Edited March 21, 2007 by almaty

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's just the same old thing here....

Bush will be, as his certain Republican successor, be fighting the war of our generation.

The democrats have become the party of appeasement. Cowards, and traitors.

Too bad.

Too bad your predictions don't seem to materialize. I remember you predicted that the Dems will get their butts whipped in November '06. Didn't turn out quite that way, did it? Your next Republican president will have to wait a little longer than 2008 as well. There will not be a Republican taking over from this failed moron Bush.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

It's just the same old thing here....

Bush will be, as his certain Republican successor, be fighting the war of our generation.

The democrats have become the party of appeasement. Cowards, and traitors.

Too bad.

Too bad your predictions don't seem to materialize. I remember you predicted that the Dems will get their butts whipped in November '06. Didn't turn out quite that way, did it? Your next Republican president will have to wait a little longer than 2008 as well. There will not be a Republican taking over from this failed moron Bush.

Do the Dems have a viable candidate? I don't think they do no matter how much hate there is for Bush.

I'm not voting D or R only L.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's just the same old thing here....

Bush will be, as his certain Republican successor, be fighting the war of our generation.

The democrats have become the party of appeasement. Cowards, and traitors.

Too bad.

Too bad your predictions don't seem to materialize. I remember you predicted that the Dems will get their butts whipped in November '06. Didn't turn out quite that way, did it? Your next Republican president will have to wait a little longer than 2008 as well. There will not be a Republican taking over from this failed moron Bush.

Do the Dems have a viable candidate? I don't think they do no matter how much hate there is for Bush.

I'm not voting D or R only L.

I'm not sure the Dems do. But the same is to be said of the Reps.

Who's running for the Libs? My vote might be up for grabs...

[mmarlo 1]

It's just the same old thing here....

Bush will be, as his certain Republican successor, be fighting the war of our generation.

The democrats have become the party of appeasement. Cowards, and traitors.

Too bad.

The democrats are just as willing to fight illegal and immoral wars, or at least violate international laws by bombing the hell out of civilians. JFK started the Vietnam war, Clinton has the Sudan, Kosovo, and East Timor on his dirty record (though in the latter two cases they were played up as "humanitarian" interventions). Hillary has already come out to say that she won't take any option off the table for dealing with Iran. If somehow she gets elected, I'm sure one of the first things she'll do is bomb some country that can't fight back to show off how big her cajones are, like her husband did soon after taking office.

Like his predecessors, Bush is fighting a war for strategic control and has quite obvious disregard for such niceties as democracy, freedom, or defense from terrorism. Even if you buy into the notion that he has noble intentions, all of his actions speak to the contrary.

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

Clinton has the Sudan, Kosovo, and East Timor on his dirty record

you left out somalia

[Heracles 417]

For me personally I agree with the going to Iraq and Afghan. People have to come back to reality and realize the world is not simply black or white. Reasoning is not an option with so many people..

Unfortunately the war was mismanaged. Iraq has become a guerrilla style of war. Conventional armies cannot win these types of wars using conventional tactics and weapons, no matter how superior or advanced the weapons may be. History has proven this time and time again..

I read an interesting article not to long ago. I think it sums up the strategic failure in recent conflicts, including Iraq..

if you want to catch a mouse, you need a cat. If you hire a lion to do the job because it is bigger and stronger, the very strength and size of the lion can get in the way of getting the job done. "A lion is built for different prey," Lyall said. "A lion is built to take down an antelope, and a cat is designed to take down a mouse. Now [in Iraq] we are a lion trying to take down a mouse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7030401260.html

[mawilson 2,133]

What's interesting to me is that we spend more to beat a desert-dwelling, primitive, superstitious society than we did to beat a much more sophisticated and lethal enemy - the Soviets.

How can we defeat such a primitive enemy?