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To: RetiredNow who wrote (380780)	4/27/2008 10:21:02 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573682

Lebanon use to be a beautiful, peaceful country. A great place to take a vacation by anyone, Arabs, Jew, Christians, anyone from around the world. What happened in Lebanon? Now there are the Hezbos, Al-Qaida, Hamas, and others fighting for power in the middle east supported by Carter's disaster in Iran. Hitler came to power, the world just ignored him, the world was in a depression. We know the price paid later for "it shouldn't be our concern". Israel is the only democracy in the middle east. Democracy is the only path to peace for all peoples in the world. A few countries are friendly to us only because they are afraid of Iran; they use to be afraid of Iraq. And do we really know China or Russia's relationship with Iran? No, to run away and hide from people who's stated and demonstrated goal it is to rid the world of every infidel not bowing down in their presence is the biggest mistake we can make this side of Jimmy Carter's and Chamberlain's. Islam that isn't interested in peace, must be stopped now rather than later. A democracy in Israel and a new democracy in Iraq that must be supported is the only path to peace in the middle east.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (380780)	4/27/2008 2:11:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573682

The $10 trillion we owe in debt has mostly been run up with spending on our military and on wars. I haven't researched it, but I don't think it is necessarily true. On a constant-dollar basis, I suspect a substantial portion of it was run up on the Welfare State, the New Deal, and the Great Society. In particular, if one books the unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare (as should be done), there is no way in hell one can argue most of the national debt was run up with military spending. It isn't even close. The National Debt -- the one that threatens our nation, is not from military spending at all; rather, it is from failed social programs -- the Welfare State, Medicare, Social Security, and 100 other programs that, instead of making our nation strong, has turned it into a nation of wimps who are unable to provide for themselves because they've had it all handed to them by the government for years.