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To: bentway who wrote (496487)	7/20/2009 11:29:58 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571935

>> I didn't hear you whining about those wild underestimates! War is what it is. You play the hand that is dealt you, and the insurgency was far worse than planned. The good news is that we killed one hell of a lot of bad people who were threats to our country. The Left's perspective seems to be that these insurgents were just harmless Iraqis who just decided to take up arms against the United States. This, of course, is not true at all. The insurgency is a result of the terrorists we want to kill flocking to Iraq to fight the infidels. Better to have killed them there than here or somewhere else.

To: bentway who wrote (496487)	7/20/2009 3:04:57 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571935

I keep posting this, but check out Bush's genius at economic forecasting: My budget has funded a responsible increase in our ongoing operations, it has funded our Nation's important priorities, it has protected Social Security and Medicare, and our surpluses are big enough that there is still money left over. Many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt. I have listened, and I agree. My budget proposal pays down an unprecedented amount of public debt. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. At the end of those 10 years, we will have paid down all the debt that is available to retire. That is more debt repaid more quickly than has ever been repaid by any nation at any time in history. We should also prepare for the unexpected, for the uncertainties of the future. We should approach our Nation's budget as any prudent family would, with a contingency fund for emergencies or additional spending needs. For example, after a strategic review, we may need to increase defense spending, we may need additional money for our farmers, or additional money to reform Medicare And so my budget sets aside almost a trillion dollars over 10 years for additional needs -- that is one trillion additional reasons you can feel comfortable supporting this budget. We have increased our budget at a responsible 4 percent, we have funded our priorities, we have paid down all the available debt, we have prepared for contingencies -- and we still have money left over. He was so close, missed it by that much... SD