[tomnbeverly]

I hate when he makes it about money... The lives of my children are priceless. If he wants to hang that 200 billion dollar price tag on his own kids then he needs to say that ... don't include me... I spent 22 years on active duty fighting for this country and its freedoms and I'll be damned if someone is going to associate a monetary value to Freedom. Let Beslan Russia serve as a cruel reminder of exactly what is at stake in this war. If we will not fight the terrorists in the streets of IRAQ than we will be forced to fight them in the School Yards of America. The President needs to tell John Kerry that the true statesman, in speaking of Freedom and Liberty (John F Kennedy) the real JFK once said "We must bear any burden and pay any price"... and John Kerry is no JFK if he is going to put a dollar sign on FREEDOM and LIBERTY.

[bray]

Thank you for your 22 years sir! You are a real American Hero! Spot On!!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[bunches]

What an outstanding and completely accurate assessment.

You have summed up the war on terror, what dangers we face and the need to keep a strong President in charge in just a paragraph.

My take on this:

It will not matter if seniors have a prescription drug plan, or we all have a national healthcare plan, or the stock market is up or down, or are schools are failing or succeeding, or crime rates are low or high, or the environment is polluted or clear, or we are hated throughout the world - - if the terrorists are allowed to strike us in America again and again with weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological or whatever) - a great many of us will be dead in the next four years.

This election of the year 2004 is the decision between life and death - literally.

[turbocat]

well said in #11

[RedMonqey]

..."If we will not fight the terrorists in the streets of IRAQ than we will be forced to fight them in the School Yards of America. ..."

Very Good... Very Churchillian. Is that your orginal or a quote from someone else?

[Pharmboy]

I had the same reaction, i.e., he mentioned the cost of the war in $ but not the lives. This guy is inhuman--could he actually be a space alien?

[Richard Kimball]

Who do you think you are, criticising John Fn Kerry? He was in Viet Nam you punk, while you were probably in the Alabama National Guard, chasing hookers and buying cocaine, hiding out from doing the REAL work that John Kerry did. H*ll, if he hadn't been dragged from the front lines kicking and screaming, we'd have WON that war! There wouldn't have been a naked 14 year old with an empty rocket launcher left in that country!!!!

Whew, sorry, I was channeling Terry MaCauliff for a second. Thanks much for your service to this country. We owe you a debt we can never repay.