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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (111483)	2/18/2008 4:19:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Protracted doesn't mean permanent. As for country we are currently occupying - We aren't a occupying power anywhere. "equating U.S. troop involvement in the endless Iraqi civil war to the post-Korean War security model The post Korean War security model is one with incidents every once in awhile, not continuing active war or anti-insurgency. Actually, a significant part of our aging infrastructure was built by....massive government intervention. I would like to see the percentage of infrastructure built by government reduced. But I'm not talking about building infrastructure when I mention massive government intervention, but rather targeted taxes, subsidies, mandates, and regulation.