You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

[Trex]

Originally Posted by fatty

If you spend enough money, sooner or later you need to start coming up with ways to justify it.

So true.

[jumpy]

ouch.

One of the discovery channels had 'the war tapes' - movie diary's from national guard reservists who were deployed in Iraq some time back.
One of the last things before the end of the program was one of the guys talking about the reasons for the war as he saw it. Paraphrased something along the lines of "It's not about any bs bringing democracy to these people or giving them their freedom from tyranny; it's about money and oil. Every war throughout human history basically boils down to money, either getting some or taking someone else's. In this case we'd better start getting some off these people or the 1800 servicemen/women who have died so far have died for nothing."

He sounded quite bitter about the whole experience and unlike some of the other guardsmen he (back then) could be re-deployed any time soon.
Some of the others were more optimistic about why they were there, but most did not sign up for any more time - they figured they'd 'done their bit & now it's time for someone else to have a go'.

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine,
meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

4 - 10 million illegal aliens? That's a large and dubiously vague range tbh coming from your homeland security committee. A startling disparity, if you ask me.
That said I'd question the presentation of such figures (not necessarily the numbers themselves, although...) the inference to those not so bright or insightful individuals (yes every country has them; in the UK we call them 'Sun Readers') is that 19,500 TERRORISTS have entered the country - they come from terrorist countries, therefore they must be terrorists! It all makes sense in the end hehe and don't forget to add how they bring all these bad habit forming substances with them, polluting the indigenous population with their evil.

On the other hand, I guess some people really resent all those scrounging illegals - hue and cry over here is 'send 'em all back'.
Another way to look at it is if you can afford to spend $338.3bn a year on scroungers, what's a trillion bucks, give or take, to kick the **** out of a bunch of rag-heads?

[nikimcbee]

It's almost April 15, I'm going to barf now.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

It's almost April 15, I'm going to barf now.

You can probably get a double tax break if you donate to the illegals, I mean... to charity - yeah thats it!

-S