How about 3000 dead Americans and deficit spending?
3,000 dead volunteer military men and women who believe in their mission and you're whining? THEY aren't whining about their mission and how hard it is, but armchair military wannabe freepers sure are.
There's never been a war fought with fewer casualties. Ever.
As far as the deficit, it's down substantially and if you'd educate yourself and listen to Wall Street analysts for just 5 minutes a day, you'd hear that most are entirely concerned about the deficit. Compared to GDP, it's at nearly historic lows.
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Deficit spending? Yeah that sucks. We're fighting 2 wars and just had the largest natural disaster ever hit America and the economy is humming along and the ratio of deficit to gdp is one of the smallest ever and income tax revenue is up significantly.
Are you referring to 9/11 or the Iraq war, or maybe both?
Thanks to another freeper pointing out something --
Let me repeat: Wall Street analysts are largely UNCONCERNED about the deficit. As compared to GDP, it's at nearly historic lows.
more Americans were killed in auto accidents over that period. We lost 3000 people over here in 2 hours.
The deficit spending is due to entitlements. The first dollar we spend is on defense because without it nothing else matters.
You must be talking about ONE battle in WWII called Normandy. Oh wait, we lost more than that in that one battle, especially if you count the 700+ lost in a training exercise just getting ready for that invasion. I guess we should have had an apology from Roosevelt for that one, eh? As wars stack up, Iraq has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, casualty rate of any war we have been involved with in history, so that must not be what you're talking about. Your comment is typical banal liberal blather.
As for deficit spending, Congress primarily controls the purse strings, but overall the economy is doing very very well and even the deficit is showing some recent improvements. It is the President's tax cuts that are to a great extent responsible for the great economy and now the lowering deficit, but if the Communists Democrats have there way, things will soon be on a reverse course, then you can really celebrate!
Beats hell out of the alternative. Or have you forgotten.
My instincts tell me that the 3000 dead today will save multiple times that in the future. The Mideast was (is) headed in the wrong direction and the decision was made to intervene and have a chance of changing things for the better in the long term.