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What does George Bush mean when he says "...the freedom loving people of Iraq who yearn to be free?" and "freedom is on the march!"? He throws the "freedom" word around like a nickel but yet works hard to perpetuate the Drug War to the point of raiding homes of dying cancer patients and throwing them in jail for using marijuana to get over chemotherapy. This ruling isn't even legally sound since it throws state rights away.

Well, follow the money, if the Drug War ended tomorrow, it would economically impact the jobs of DEA drug agents, prison guards, police officers, lawyers, school physiologists, researchers at the Center for the Study of Substance Abuse at the CDC, the FDA, I'm sure I'm missing more than a few. Money would go away for the DARE grants, the pretty DARE cars, Midnight Basketball, the 3 billion a year we send to Columbia to kill Colombians, and I'm sure I'm missing a few. This money and these resources would better be directed back into our pockets, or toward the Terror War. Expending all this money by exploiting peoples weakness to "get high" and are doing harm only to themselves or a willing buyer/seller. (I'm not talking about kids.)

I guess this is compassionate conservatism, you spend like a democrat and you're mean like a republican.