"The Senate voted Friday to give President Bush $50 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. military efforts against terrorism, money that would push total spending for the operations beyond $350 billion."
"Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the chairman of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee said the $50 billion should last through the first half of the year, but acknowledged that Congress likely will have to approve more money for wars in May or June."
Okay, so our Senators in Washington must have access to a golden goose that we the taxpayers are not aware of. What happened to the "conservative" thinking when it comes to spending like a kid in a candy store?
Maybe these geniuses should try some traditional thinking and start selling war bonds to finance the war or better yet start a Federal sales tax on cigarettes, beer and hard liquor?
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I have an even better idea...let's send everyone home from the desert, then we won't have to spend any more money on this feutile war.
P.S. thanks for stopping again!
Thanks, as we know the administration will just replay the tired rhetoric of staying the course, thousand points of light (Bush senior's) etc.. The president and his advisors need to come up with some concrete plan to finance this quagmire overseas. There is no golden goose and he does not have the Midas touch, so this administration needs to enact some real solutions immediately.
"start a Federal sales tax on cigarettes, beer and hard liquor."
Start?!
I sincerely hope that was satirical, mman.
I must agree, however, that it's time to shit or get off the pot in Iraq. We've been pussy-footing around Muslim "sensibilites" and trying to win hearts and minds for far too long. Either impose a military governership and rule with an iron fist until the region is stabilized, or get out. You can't play at imperialism; you're either an empire, or you're not. Any attempt to sail a middle course will invariably result in political, diplomatic and military disaster.
You can't hand anyone a representative republic on a golden platter and expect that they'll keep it. They didn't fight for it, they didn't bleed for it, and--in the end--they don't want it. They want to continue their superstitious, peasant existence, and worship a 1400-year dead merchant-cum-prophet. Everything else is irrelevant to their mindset. We can't make Americans out of them, and shouldn't try. The British learned this lesson in India during the 19th century. We, evidently, have yet to learn it.
Don't get me wrong: Hussein needed killin' in the worst way. But we can't expect a bunch of repressed, superstitous peasants to suddenly become enlightened and cosmoplitan simply because we rolled in tanks and killed all their oppressors. It doesn't work that way; never has.
Republic or empire. It's time we make our choice.
Thanks to everyone who commented. It is nice to know there are some real Americans out there that still give a damn.
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