“The impact on our national prestige to this entire action”
-”I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.”-Gaddafi of Libya
“The impact on our own strategic mobility and responsiveness “
Having a strategically located democratic ally in the heart of the middle east, which willfully hosts our military, is a great disadvantage to our ‘strategic mobility and responsiveness’./s
“The strategic impact of adding $3 Trillion to our national debt”
Where’d you get this number?
“The sacrifice of the entirety of the conservative agenda in order to prosecute a war in Iraq.”
Continued appeasement of a terrorist entity in a post-9/11 world isn’t part of a conservative agenda. It would be part of an appeasement agenda.
“The impact on our own democracy of turning lose Homeland Security on the American public.”
This one is true. In fact, I had several Homeland Security black helicopters hovering over me the other day demanding I hand over my library records.
“The impact of $127 oil on an economy...”
Of course the skyrocketing fuel demands of the Chinese and Indian economies, combined with a refusal to allow the building of new refineries, nuclear plants, or drill for oil by congressional democrats, have no impact on the price of oil. Only the war in Iraq can be blamed. You have the DNC talking points down pat.
And because Bush squandered his political capital on invading Iraq, he had nothing left to deal with the real strategic problems we faced, such as this one, which we have seen coming for a long time.
And we are free to move on the moment there is another demand on our resources. HAH!!
Here it is, but next time, do your own research. The interesting thing is that the rate of debt accumulation had leveled off, amusingly under the Democrats, and it is the Republicans who are the spendthrifts that have bankrupted us.
Who is calling for appeasing terrorists. Post 9-11 we took out the Taliban who were responsible for a direct attack on the US. That was just exactly the right thing to do, and set a fine example. I remain unconvinced that the world is a safer place because we invaded Iraq, however. Remember we had Sadam pretty well cornered already. He couldn't fly airplanes and any time he breathed in a way we didn't like we bombed something important. we could have kept that up for a long long time without bankrupting the US.