Didn't some guys run some planes into some buildings in New York after commiting acts of warfare on US stuff for decades?
So, you think 9/11 is justification for a sustained campaign in Iraq? I wouldn't be surprised if when the history of this time is written, it's revealed the Administration was duplicitous in 9/11. It gave them the excuse to pass their most treasured legislation... The Patriot Act.
Yes, and they and they fellow band in Afghan caves and around the world could have been... should have been taken out by Special Forces for a few million - Not 600B plus how many other countless innocent dead Iraqis...
Would be if the $42B Bush is requesting could be "paper spent" instead of coming out of our hides. I wonder how much $$$ would be spent in Iraq if when W wanted to spend more, he sent each of us a bill for "our share" of the expense. Wouldn't be long before we protested by throwing the bum OUT!
Another irritating and ridiculous outcome of all this Iraq nonsense is that, like the point above, we were all charged as the money was spent, the money is being spent recklessly and then they want to pacify their party elite by lowering taxes. Democrats are bad because they see that someone, somehow, is going to have to pay for all the economic waste in Iraq. I'm not a democrat, but even so, it is just plain stupidity that allows the US to continue pouring money in the middle of someone else's civil, holy war while giving more and more tax breaks to big oil and the wealthiest classes. I like lower taxes, I am fortunate enough to receive value from the tax rates above xxx,xxxK, but the largest segment of our society doesn't even benefit from these breaks. How much longer can we stay in Iraq? Hillary's not the answer, the GOP will never leave, Obama probably won't make it past the primaries, so what the hell do we do. And, yes, this should probably go to politics and religion. c
He wants 196 Billions now. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/washington/23prexy.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin