Originally posted by beet1e
It makes me laugh to hear the entire justification for a war with an initial cost of some $180bn, and more than 1000 American lives lost, reclassified as the "WMD thingy". 
The whole debacle has played into the anti-war crusaders' hands, so that next time a crisis or threat to our security arises, mobilisation of our military forces to address that threat is a notion that is going to be much more difficult to sell to the public. If such a crisis were to arise in an election campaign year, well, I'll leave you to figure it out. 
The "WMD thingy" statement was for your benefit. I wanted to keep it simple so you would understand.
First off the WMD issue would have never came up if it weren`t for election year here in the U.S. As a matter of fact it was way down on the lists of importance to begin with. The whole issue was used as a political mud slinger simply because of elections here.
180Bn and 1000 American lives you say? Try this on for size.... Freedom is not free. Never has been. Never will be. There has always been and will always be wars. Otherwise tyrants such as these would just roll over the rest of the world. I know for a fact that our country will not just "assume the position" and wait to be attacked by these wannabe world rulers.
Quite frankly....screw the anti-war crusaders. They never enter the picture to begin with either. That crap is media juice which amounts to nothing. We have had war protesting pansy *** limp wrists in the past. They made much more of a stir than these tree huggin, pastel wearing, tofo eating purse swingers and it amounted to absolutely ZILCH.
When you speak of mobilization of "our" miltary forces , I`m not sure what you mean by "our". I can damn well tell you that when the bullet hits the bone, so to speak, here in the U.S. and it is time to quit talking and take action, it will be done and it will be fully supported by the majority of U.S. citizens. I certainly can`t and would not attempt to speak for your country, but once again , either way, it will amount to nothing as far as what the U.S. actions will be.
One more time.........
By God I`m proud to be an American. The key word being American.
