Originally posted by sxecrow
It's not a problem we can take care of now. Where we had surplus spending, we're not in debt billions of dollars. DAILY we loose US troops to guerilla style warfare and we have nothing to show for it (not to mention media hype on a bunch of bs for morale and public relation -i.e JESSICA LYNCH. No WMD have been uncovered, we still dont even have Saddam himself (kinda like Bin Laden). We conquered Iraq and even though Mr. Bush's oil friends are getting all the contracts and making an assload of money off the whole thing, I'm still paying $2.00 a gallon. The job market is in the shitter and the economy has gone down the drain (again).
so you're saying you would rather let the situation sit another 14 years? it'll be even more of a problem to get under control then.
sure it's sad to see soldiers dying to suicide bombers and such, but from my viewpoint, each and every one of them knew the risks before they raised their right hand and took their oath. i know i did. if they didn't think anything would happen and they were just on a ride for college money.... they've had one hell of a rude awakening. the military is not a commitment to be taken lightly.
i do agree with you on the whole jessica lynch situation---- (mark that on your calendar, we actually agree on something)
contrary to popular belief, the decline of the job market and the economy at this point in time is not because of the war or the person living in the white house. those two are just the obvious scapegoats that everyone looks to. the real underlying problem, causing the economy and job market to suffer is the globalization of big business. simply put, it's cheaper for industry to manufacture goods in countries such as mexico, china or india rather than right here in the US. because of that, we have an increasing surplus in jobless people and an ever plummeting economy(that is unless you are in a specialized field or work with government contracts). you can partially thank mr. clinton for that because he didn't see it fit to veto NAFTA. that bill singularly put hundreds of thousands of US citizens in the poor house and lined the pockets of the buerocrats that signed it into being nicely, as well as the companies that take advantage of the benefits daily.
i know several families in my hometown, that within a year of the signing of that bill into law, were jobless and forced to go on welfare to survive. the textile industry has since all but completely gone away from this country. that's hundreds of thousands of jobs... gone at the drop of a hat. there's a reason that the economy is hovering around the bottom of the barrel and it's not because of war or oil prices or a president that just doing as good of a job as he can with what he was handed.
just my $.02