09-04-2004, 04:16 AM
Quote:For Sir Die alot, I suggest you calm yourself down, and think about whether you really want to take money out of the economy that probably goes to economic growth and throw it in the military. I suggest you calm down because when the wars in Iraq and the middle east in general end, the U.S. will still have economic competetion with other countries, and that takes money too, but you seem afraid of something right now so much that you want to go all military. If the U.S. military is stronger by far than all the other world's militaries with an average percent GDP, that all we need, the rest should go to econimic growth.I am calm. B)
Keep in mind what is going on with the military, thousands and thousands are over seas in combat, 130,000 in Iraq alone last I heard. Reguardless how you feel about the decision, once deployed, we should support our troops. That doesn't mean we just don't spit on them and call them "baby killers", that also means supporting them finantially.
Probably Kerry's biggest mistake in the time he has been after the presidancy was his flip-flop of voting to send troops into Iraq, and then voting against their funding. He can say he supports the troops all he wants, the fact is he did not. In the end I think that more than anything else is going to cost him.