The Bush Administration has been very careful to make sure most Americans do not have to make any sacrifices (at least while he is in office) for his illegal and morally wrong war and failed foreign policies. The war has cost over 500 BILLION dollars and he keeps asking for more… but no increase in taxes… where is the money coming from? Bush is mortgaging our children and our grandchildren’s future while he lives in his and the Republican’s fantasy land world. Our voluntary military is so desperate for recruits you no longer need a high school diploma. Have a criminal record? No problem. Not a US citizen? No problem. Even lowering standards has not been enough, how about $20,000 to report in 30 days with up to another $25,000 later. Why is this not a problem for Bush? Because these recruits come from the middle and lower income American families, not the $5000 a plate Republican chicken hawks chicken shits. So long as it’s not their sons and daughters dying they will continue to kiss Bush’s Ass all the way to the bank. So long as “We The People” stand by and remain passive to what this Administration and Congress are doing to this country we are abdicating our rights and responsibilities under the Constitution.
To quote from an article by Drew Westen at The New Republic
Of course, the Democrats have not threatened to take many incremental steps that would pose any real political risks to themselves. One, for example, would be to hold real hearings on whether there is any way to avoid reinstatement of the draft and maintain our national security if we continue an indefinite presence in Iraq, so that the American people begin to connect voting Republican with realistic anxiety about the lives and well-being of their teenage children.
The question Democrats have never asked Republicans since the war began is the only one that really matters: Would you send your own child to die in Iraq? And if so, have you done everything you can to convince your children that, if this is truly the war you say it is–for our freedom, for our very way of life, to keep the terrorists “over there” so that we don’t fight them “over here”–they should drop their lucrative investment banking careers and be all they can be in Baghdad? Surely, with American freedom at stake, Jenna Bush could wait a few months to don her wedding gown and spend some time in army fatigues.
And while we’re on our children, as Congress considers yet another supplemental appropriations bill for the war, the least Democrats can do this time around for our children, grandchildren, and generations yet unborn is to stop taxing them for this war (which is what deficit-spending for a war is), and to require that Bush and the Republicans put their money where their mouth is: Tell us whose taxes they’re going to raise to pay not only for the next hundred billion dollars but for the half a trillion they have already spent from the piggy-banks of the innocent.
So, would you send your child or grandchild to die in Iraq for this President? A man who, for 5 years, has been lying to you.
My answer is No!
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Doesn’t this just make you want to puke. I hate this War and I hate the man for lieing us into it.
I don’t know how he sleeps at night!
Since nobody “sends” them and they volunteer on their own, I don’t understand the question.
Further, a few points:
The Bush Administration has been very careful to make sure most Americans do not have to make any sacrifices
Surely you’re setting an example of the way things ought to be. What sacrifices have you made?
for his illegal and morally wrong war
For years, I’ve been asking folks to explain how this was “illegal”. So far, the best answer is “because Kofi Anan said so.” Nevermind that he was involved in Oil For Food, the most corrupt financial program in history. Is that what makes it illegal, the fact that Bush put an end to his cash cow?
but no increase in taxes… where is the money coming from?
From the record revenue gains resulting from the tax cuts. You know, the record revenue gains making the Bush economy more robust than BJ’s.
Our voluntary military is so desperate for recruits you no longer need a high school diploma.
Actually, our voluntary millitary meets their recruitment goals on a regular basis. The Army was short back in 2005. But when you look at the big picture, instead of liberal lying points, that only constituted like 1% of the total military.
Because these recruits come from the middle and lower income American families,
Even if this were true, why do you feel compelled to denigrate them? Also, if you look at the demographics of the soldiers, you’d find that they’re more educated than the civilian population. Plus, you’d find that income distribution is roughly the same. Further, after the war on terror began, there was a disproportionately higher increase in higher income and higher educated enlistees than before the war. But that’s if you bother to look instead of reading liberal lying points.
So long as “We The People†stand by and remain passive to what this Administration and Congress are doing to this country we are abdicating our rights and responsibilities under the Constitution.
Which rights have you lost or “abdicated”? I know I still have all of mine. That’s another question I’ve been asking for years. Kooks keep claiming that they’re losing their rights, but I have yet to find one who can tell me which ones.
To quote from an article by Drew Westen at The New Republic
Would this be the same TNR that foisted Scott Thomas Beauchamp on the American public?
BTW, I don’t recall Chelsea serving in Bosnia or Haiti etc.
I sure hope you can answer my questions, because so far, nobody can.
P.S. Hey Carol ! Why is it that they were lies only after a Republican actually did something about it? Why weren’t they lies in the 1990s?
Oh yeah. How can the war cost “over $500 billion” when your little ticker widget says $458?
Any idea on the trillions we’ve spent on the “war on poverty”, which evidently has no end strategy?
Thank you for your opposing though misguided opinions. I noticed, however, that you do not allow the same for others to comment on your site.
If you had read the About page you would have seen that I AM a conservative Republican and have been longer than you have been alive. I have also in the military for 9 years. I don’t listen to the “liberal lying points” you mention but I do pay attention to the “Bush lying points” and the Republicans who drink his swill and enable him.
As to your 1st comment I would have to write a post as the answers would be to long for the comment section here. As to your 2nd comment the ticker numbers include military and non-military spending, such as reconstruction. Spending only includes incremental costs, not additional funds that are expended due to the war. For example, soldiers’ regular pay is not included, but combat pay is included. Potential future costs, such as future medical care for soldiers and veterans wounded in the war, are not included. Also current funding will not cover all military wear and tear. It also does not account for the Iraq War being deficit-financed and that taxpayers will need to make additional interest payments on the national debt due to those deficits.
If Bush’s war ended today it is the Pentagons estimate that it would take 6-8 years and over a Trillion dollars to get our military, including the National Guards, back to where they were prior to the Bush fiasco.
Thank you for not answering my questions. I expected as much.
BTW, I do have commens on my blog operated by Haloscan.
As an OIF veteran, let me just say thank you for this post, Couchhouse.
In response to TheGayConservatives quip, “Since nobody ’sends’ them and they volunteer on their own…”.
There is nothing in the enlistment oath that says, “I volunteer to be sent to an immoral and deceitful war.” We enlist into a force that (theoretically) fights for the protection of our country. The problem with this war is that the soldiers and the American civilian population have been lied to about its cause. To minimize this fact and rationalize the deaths of thousands of men and women because they “volunteered on their own” is the most disrespectful and irresponsible use of words I’ve heard in quite a while.