[joeyman]

It's absolutely hysterical that anyone who opposes war is a leftist.

When the govt stops funding, sheparding, and encouraging illegal aliens to come to our shores, when they remove those same aliens from the US and delete their drivers lisc, welfare payments, social security payments and voter registration, when they start to control our boarders, when they stop trying to centralize federal power, stop sending all our industrial businesses overseas (because overregulation makes it impossible to compete for US constructed products) when we stop buying oil from Sadam to finance his operations, then I would believe that the govt is waging an effective war on terrorism. If the war is here, what are we doing there? (And THANKS for the condecending comments - it really elevates the discussion).

[okie01]

"If the war is here, what are we doing there?"

One might say, taking the war to the enemy rather than hunkering down and waiting for him to kill some more Americans. A less charitable observer might say "what we are doing there is...saving your butt."

Given the pig-headedness demonstrated (e.g., "the real beneficiaries of this evolution -- should it go as planned -- will be the narrow business interests who will receive contracts based on the reconstruction of Iraq and the extraction of it's oil), I should think the "condescending comments" are totally in order.

[Long Cut]

Post #6 is EXACTLY what the author was speaking about. You mention a litany of subjects about which YOU think the government should be doing something, until which time it has no business fighting a war elsewhere.

Sounds exactly like the Democrats who are desperate to get the war off the front pages and talk down the economy once again. It is also just as selfish and short-sighted.

Yet again, we have someone who is comfortable gambling with American lives. Oh, and the "buisiness interests" comments are classic Leftist. But I guess the two concepts go very well together.

[Luis Gonzalez]

No, you're worse than a liberal, you're a fool.

You want the attack on 9/11 to go unaddressed until such a time when YOUR particular set of priorities are dealt with.

You want the resources of the US NOT to be directed at bringing to justice the people responsible for murdering 3,000 innocent civilians, but instead used to round-up people picking tomatoes and oranges.

You want to lie about the reason why US businesses are going overseas in order to promote your agenda. They're going over seas because the wages are cheaper there.

And what we're doing there is going after the enemy in their home turf. After all, isn't that what they did?

Yeah, you're worse than a liberal. At least, they're honest about their idiocy.