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To: i-node who wrote (410853)	8/27/2008 9:59:09 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576162

Iran will have increased influence with it's new buddy Iraq I think that's okay as long as it isn't Ahmadeninjad. Most of Iran isn't a problem. You think it's OK that we have made Iran the second most powerful country in the ME? You will ignore anything to support a Republican president. We won't get the military bases the Neo's coveted after getting thrown out of Saudi Arabia we're getting thrown out of Iraq Let's not confuse negotiating tactics with facts, and let's not confuse unconfirmed reports from the liberal media with truth. WTF are you talking about. These are direct quote from the Iraq Prime Minister. We're still deficit spending $Billion on Iraqi infrastructure while Iraq runs a huge budget surplus We are spending money in Iraq but wars cost money. Our congress (a primarily liberal one) has, from minute one, approved these expenditures, so apparently, everyone agrees the money should be spent. The Dems are chicken shit. China is getting the new Iraqi oil contracts Okay, so you agree "No Blood For Oil" was a stupid thing to have said? Yeah it should have been "no blood for nothing". The Iraqi government is turning on the militias that removed AQ; the sectarian violence isn't over, it's just starting Is this the Obama "The Surge Didn't Solve the Problem" claim? No it's the Fowler "The Surge Didn't Solve the Problem" fact. The debt from this war will hit the prosperity of an entire generation Nonsense. Our country can handle a sub-trillion dollar war with ease. The thing that is killing us is outflow of petroleum money on a weekly basis. We can probably handle it (in that we won't die of starvation) but that doesn't mean it doesn't hit our prosperity, with interest. Part of the price of oil is the Neo geopolitical risk, another part is the Republican aversion to gasoline efficiency and the fact that the oil industry has had this admin in it's back pocket for 7+ years. The US has lost the respect of most of the world, we are no longer considered the first benevolent super power Nope, not until they need us. But when anyone is being pushed around, when anyone needs help, they aren't looking to Russia, Old Europe, or anyone else. They come to US. If they do they will be out of luck (see Georgia). Our military is bust thanks to the Bush two front war. And the world knows it.