Bush's $1 Trillion War on Terror: Even Costlier Than Expected

Just think if you put the blame where it belongs, instead of blaming yer favorite whipping boy for every problem the country has.

 

I don't care who wrote it, your post indicates you agree with it.

History will tell you. Bush did not, could not lead this country into war by himself. I think you know that, maybe you don't. But just because you keep yerself ignorant on how the war started doesn't mean I have to let everyone else stay ignorant.

Bush didn't start the war by himself. You should stop trying to say he did. Then perhaps you can get someone to actually talk to you, instead of always having to correct you.

 

Just think of all the people who could have died and all the attacks that would have happened on the United States of in this money was not spent fighting terror.

I would rather have an economy in the toilet than living in the constant threat of being blown to pieces like the people of Israel do.

 

We already know how much good it would have done. We have spent way more than $1 trillion here and have more problems than before.

The reality is that terrorism won't go away by us spending money at home. And the problems at home won't go away by us spending money at home.

 

And Bush needed help in doing this.

 

No, that's how you judge him.

Everyone else used the same intelligence.


Answer me something....who were the members of congress AGAINST going to Iraq ? Can you name them ? Did any democrats, like Al Gore, or Hillary Clinton, or my favorite democrat, Colin Powell try and stop him ? Answer honestly, now.

Then tell me what they've done to stop it, since gaining a majority two years ago ?

 

Bush didn't start this war by himself, any more than the zero will be able to end it by himself.

 

Another wrong statement. I heard Al Gore whining about Sadaam in 1992, saying we had to take him out. Seems like the dems were pushing for this when W was still a baseball guy. Bush introduced nothing, just picked up Clinton's ball & ran. You can't rewrite history just because you hate the guy.


Again, what dems tried to stop him ? And how does he keep getting "his" war funded ? The GOP is the minority now, you know. Seems like if they wanted the war over, it would be.

 

Do you have a wife and children, maybe grandchildren?

How much are their lives worth?

 

Also, how much did Bush say this war would cost ? Got a $ amount ? Were we given a budget ? A prediction ?

 

"President Bush plans to tell congressional leaders on Monday that the war in Iraq will cost about $80 billion, administration officials said, three days after both chambers of Congress passed budget plans and authorized tax cuts without a war-cost estimate from the administration."

- www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/23/MN204798.DTL (3/23/03)

 

Crab is right, in that this will forever be "Bush's War."

However, someone else brought up an excellent point that Crab and others seem to be overlooking: the Democrats have controlled Congess for how long now? Why aren't they pushing to exercise that balance of power we all learned about in civics class oh-so-many years ago, and represent the will of the people?

Or are they?

 

Two years, but without a filibuster proof majority in the U.S. Senate.

 

And we're just figuring out it's over budget ? Hmmm.

Still waiting for that list of dems.

 

Not to everyone. And remember, he didn't write the title.