[Defender2]

If the United States were turned into a smoking hole, would you ALL be still crying over money!!!! It's WARTIME people and unless you know something different, history shows that spending tends to go up in WarTime!!!! You ALL can cry over spent money, I just want to defeat Our Beloved United States enemies, period!!!! And I don't care how much it costs either!!!! So I will continue to fight our enemies while you all continue to cry over money!!!!

[Tim Osman]

You'll note (or you WOULD have noted, if you'd bother to read my post) that I was referring to non-defense spending. I love America every bit as much as you, and have no problem with reasonable, constitutional measures being taken to protect my country.

However I must thank you for reminding me of a Bush excuse I left off my list:

This is a time of war!

[inPhase]

We support you and you have a CINC to salute, I respect that.

But we cannot just sit quiet while socialism the other enemy gains ground.

Safe travel.

[DLfromthedesert]

Shweetie, I don't cry over money used to fight the war. BUT money used by the Feds for other purposes is money used to regulate OUR behavior.

Please read your tagline.

[RJCogburn]

while you all continue to cry over money!!!!

My concern is the expansion of government more than the dollar amounts.

[John Robertson]

Agree! I wrote this, earlier:

am supporting W. in all possible ways in the coming election, and here's why: Though he has disappointed me with some stances, and though I know there are yet more disappointments in his pipeline, I believe there is really only ONE issue of our time: Domestic security--aka WOT.

He has the spine, the will, and the religious faith to take on what is our current Holy War. I cannot imagine anyone else at this particular helm.

All the arguments about too much spending, how harshly we should treat illegals, etc.--all of it!--pale to me when I realize that our country could become Israel writ large, if the Islamofascists have their way. I don't want that for my children. Do I want them to grow into adulthood just to bitch about the cost of social security and medical care? If the alternative is them lying in graves, murdered at the hands of extremists on a suicide mission--convert us or kill us--then I say: Bring it.

[e_engineer]

It's WARTIME people and unless you know something different, history shows that spending tends to go up in WarTime!!!!

When I first read this line I thought "I could accept all the extra spending if it was defense related, but sadly most of it is socialist pork."

Then I saw that you used 4 exclamation marks at the end of every sentence in your post, so you must be right.