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The U.S. Has Spent Close To $500 Billion On The War In Iraq

[canyoutellme-2009]

I've come to the conclusion that US_infidel is just a troll, trying to stir up trouble. He's constantly given proof and reason and yet pretends like it has never been said and just continues to throw in the republiCON talking points. He's a fake and he knows it. For some reason, he's getting his kicks on a message board which to me, shows that he is not taking these issues of Life and Death seriously.

If he is serious, then that's scary.. he's willing to blindly follow anything his master Bush tells him to do... truly sick.

[sshard]

When the House committee approved a bill calling for the withdrawal of the troop, and required troops have proper training, equipment and rest, Bush said all thing were unacceptable. His reason was it would handcuff his generals. I can see his problem with the withdrawal section, but the other parts. And this is saying he supports the troops?

[canyoutellme-2009]

US Infidel, you said..

"I agree, the war was an error. But unlike your kind, Americans don't stab their president in the back in front of the whole world. Pay attention.....if you badmouth the president, and the president sent the troops, then you are badmouthing the troops. Get it? "

That's such bullsh*t and you know it. We bad mouth the president because he's wrong on just about EVERYTHING including this war. "The war was an error" you say. If he had not gone into the war in the first place (LIKE THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE NOT IN OFFICE TRIED TO TELL HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN), then there would be no troops dead in Iraq today. THAT is supporting the troops. Blindly going into war and then YOU supporting him solely because he is the president thereby getting THOUSANDS of innocent Americans KILLED in the process is NOT supporting the troops. YOU are directly responsible for their deaths in a war that we cannot win. You are implicit in their deaths and not a D*MNED thing you say can get you out of it.

Supporting your troops is wanting them ALIVE, not purposefully wanting them to DIE for an idealistic war which has created MORE terrorists than EVER before. Unbelieveable.

BTW, your intention on wiping out terrorism is honorable. EVERYONE has that same exact goal. However, the ability to do so is like wiping out the balance between good and evil. It is too grand an idea. It's like saying "We want world peace and will kill everyone who is against it to get there"

[dallison7]

if you badmouth the president, and the president sent the troops, then you are badmouthing the troops. Get it?
Posted by US_Infidel


That is about the most ignorant thing I have ever read. I personally spit on Bush while I honor the troops.

[canyoutellme-2009]

Scott, i'm with you on that!

Let's see...

Republicans say they SUPPORT the troops. They willingly send our men and women into a battle with LESS than appropriate equipment. They are slaughtered every day for a war we supposedly won a long time ago. They're fighting a war of ideas which they cannot win. BUT hey ,they support the troops by putting that yellow sticker on their SUV's; wonderful support.

Democrats on the other hand, value the LIVES of the troops by wanting them back home. What more could we dems do to prove we support the troops? We don't want them killed over Bush's war on ideas which cannot be won. INstead, we want them here so they can be with their families and friends and LIVE. And this is somehow emboldening the enemy? HUH?

have the cons realized that our military is stretched so thin that if we DO get some kind of attack on our homeland right now, we're COMPLETELY vulnerable?? Did you know that? Yet DEMS are the ones who hate America?? Sounds to me like the CONs are the ones who HATE america and our troops and their families. Geez, everything that is going on proves it. They hate America SO MUCH that they're willing to vote away the freedoms of citizens (a la the Patriot Act, what a farce).

For once CONs, stop thinking about who will win an election and do what is RIGHT!!!!! What is RIGHT is we get out of this ridiculous war based on FALSE info and attend to matters at HOME in AMERICA... you know, the America that you CONs say that we DEMs hate.

[us_infidel]

of this corrupt administration.
This war has been a grave error.
Posted by scott4261 at 01:28 PM : Mar 19, 2007

Corrupt? How so? Let's see all your damning evidence. And I'm not talking about your left wing talking points......I'm talking about hard evidence!

I agree, the war was an error. But unlike your kind, Americans don't stab their president in the back in front of the whole world. Pay attention.....if you badmouth the president, and the president sent the troops, then you are badmouthing the troops. Get it?

[scott4261]

I have to ask the question again: HOW has the war in Iraq been worth it? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden couldn't have conspired to attack the U.S. because they hated each other. Saddam was secular and Osama is a religious extremist. This war was not worth one drop of American blood. And the very occupation by the U.S. has created a vacuum for terrorist activity where there was none before.

And for what? To benefit Exxon/Mobil, Halliburton, and KBR? I believe that one need only to follow the war profiteering money trail to find out just how much is wrong with this war and why I detest what is happening now.

And before the Bush apologist start bashing my post, let me say this: I get irritated when I am told that I am somehow undermining troop morale, that I hate America, that I'm a traitor, that I'm unpatriotic,.....whatever...you name it....just because I choose to speak out against the actions of this corrupt administration. I love my country and that is why I am willing to speak up.

This war has been a grave error.

[canyoutellme-2009]

This is ridiculous... "War on terror"... What are we really fighting anyway? That others who disagree with their "enemies" will use terror to scare them and defeat them? How in the world do you "win" a war of what goes on in people's minds? You can't! Even if we wipe out all the religous extremists in the world... there will STILL be murders, rapes, etc... and those who will use explosives 'n other such things to cause terror. Terror is a fact of LIFE as a human being. It SUCKS, but it will always be there. it has been there since the beginning of TIME and will continue long after we're gone. Republicans living in FEAR of Terror are ridiculous. You cannot fight a war on TERROR because TERROR has no time boundaries ... EVER! If you fight a war with a country because they've attacked you or something, that's different because when you wipe out the country or win that war, it's over (for the time being) with that nation. But when you fight a war on ideas and human behavior, it's by definition, UNWINNABLE. Geezus CHRIST people... get with it and get our people out of IRAQ, a war we CANNOT win.

[usvetjoker]

I find it impossible to understand how growing support for our troops is being ignored by the press in this country. The bulk of support seems to be by the very people who have the most to loose, vets and familys. I suppose they (being the majority) at least are able to understand what happens when terroism is allowed to go unchecked.

[sshard]

The reason and hope of many for a win in Iraq, is a win will destroy and deny a sanctuary the terrorists and Americans, can live in peace and security. But I wonder, will this be the end to the threat of terrorism. Southern Thailand is a scene of a brutal struggle between government and Islamic insurgents. If we %u2018win%u2019 in Iraq, then is the next line to be drawn in Thailand to stop Islamic insurgents from establishing sanctuary? We cannot solve this problem alone, not when we are losing proud men and women every day. The Bush administration needs to realize, we need a new strategy. Military might and money alone is not the answer, especially when its overwhelmingly our blood and our money. The US must mend fences with our allies, swallow its pride and listen to them as equal partners. By giving up this unilateral macho policy, can we ever hope to %u2018win%u2019 and find the peace and security for ourselves, for our children and for the world.