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To: Brumar89 who wrote (892)	7/23/2008 8:48:35 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

When we go to war in the Middle East, there is only one reason for it and that's oil. To think otherwise is to be pretty naive. To believe war is not an investment is also naive. It can be an investment in peace or in securing oil supplies or to ensure we don't pay greater costs in lives and treasure later from being attacked by a hostile group of people. War always has to be a cost benefit calculation. Do we go to war or not against Hitler. Is he a mad man that will never stop or is he contained? If we wait, will the costs in lives and treasure be greater through our delay? Should we go to war against Saddam? Why are we doing it? What have we to gain and what have we to lose? Clearly the neocons did not answer these questions well enough. Even now the costs of continuing the conflict outweigh any possible benefit we can achieve. We keep pouring money into a country that can pay for its own reconstruction and military. We have no business being there.