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To: RetiredNow who wrote (534435)	12/4/2009 9:51:26 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576882

How many Americans died over the last 6 years from lack of health care, because we spent $1 trillion to kill 1 million Iraqis over the last 6 years? For the record, we have not spent $1 trillion and we killed NOWHERE NEAR a million Iraqis. The total Iraqis killed is in the area of 100,000, almost all of which were killed by their own violence against them (i.e., not by Americans). Americans killed a small proportion of those 100K. And the number of such deaths is smaller than that which would have died under Saddam (who averaged 60,000 innocents/year). To answer your question, however, very few Americans die from a lack of health care, and being at war with Iraq had absolutely no effect, whatsoever. The truth is that American health care is excellent, and it is only an issue today because of gullible Americans, like yourself, who were convinced by the liberals that it was a real problem. It isn't, although tort reform and controlling medicare/medicaid fraud needs to be addressed. How many more Americans will die here at home over the next 3 years as we spend another $300B in Afghanistan to nation build and pacify that country? Again, these are unrelated issues. But the risk of a nuclear detonation in a major American city is very real and it is money we have to spend. Which was the point of the original post. You spend what you have to to defend the nation. If there is some left you can decide whether it should be refunded to taxpayers or spent for some worthy purpose. But you spend the money for defense no matter what. How many Americans could we have employed in the US for $1.3 trillion, saving them from homelessness, poverty, broken homes, etc etc. This is stupid. The government "employing" Americans does not save anyone from homelessness, poverty, etc. It only sets them up for a life of dependency. Learn to be an individualist. Take care of yourself. Don't expect government to provide your health care, housing, food, or anything else. Ask government to protect you from nuclear weapons detonated in your cities. Lack of money for US domestic nation building ends lives and ruins others. This is ridiculous. We don't need to be "nation building" here or anywhere else. I see no signs we are "nation building" in Afg. We did far more in Iraq than I would have liked. But I can understand why it was considered necesasry.