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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tech Master who wrote (483431)	10/29/2003 5:13:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"I agree that it will be a long, hard road. Nobody has ever said anything different." >>> Actually, many of the 'neo-cons' ("new Cons"... 'ya gotta love that truth in advertising) did: there was a lot of loose talk before the war about how the Iraqi oil revenue would pay for everything,. "Wars suck..." >>> No doubt. "but the alternative is worse." >>> You mean peace? >>> IMO, it all comes down to risk/reward... and Opportunity Cost - the cost of forgone opportunities. >>> Figure... what? 1/2 Trillion dollars, or $600 Billion or so cost to the American taxpayers before we can extricate ourselves? (Not counting, of course, all the INTEREST COSTS that will add up on that debt - since the war was paid for with borrowed money - over the next 30 years or so... maybe cracking the $1 Trillion mark in the end.) >>> What ELSE could 1/2 to 1 Trillion dollars have bought us? Total US energy independence? A paid-up healthcare system? A balanced budget? A reformed, next generation defense force? A funded privatization of the Social Security system? >>> Some things are just better VALUES. >>> That old dictator Saddam was in his seventies... and apparently mostly WMD-less in a dangerous neighborhood. By all rights, we should have gotten rid of him during Desert Storm - but Bush I either didn't have the guts... or strategic vision... or, if we take him at his word, he feared the CONSEQUENCES. >>> But that was then, this is now... what is our best allocation of resources?