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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (169196)8/14/2011 6:47:49 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 544240
 
Steve, I've said the wars were a mistake from the beginning (from before they were wars), and I never wanted to pour US money down a gopher hole in the ME. But that doesn't make me Ron Paul. I like government, I just don't like stupid wars. But on the other hand, I know wars are a lot harder to start than to end- and do I want a precipitous pull out leading to all out chaos? Not really. It's bush's fault we are stuck in a terminal screwed up expensive mire in the ME- but I can't say I'd trust Paul to get us out of this. Paul is an impractical zealot.



To: Steve Lokness who wrote (169196)8/14/2011 7:48:09 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 544240
 
Steve, lots of people said repeatedly, at the time, that tax cuts during wartime are crazy, that we were going to be paying for these wars for a very long time, and that the resulting debt was going to be a big problem. Paul isn't the first or only person to have figured that out. His pointing it out only proves that a) he has a firm grasp on the obvious, and b) he also has some political courage. It doesn't make him a prophet.


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