The economy pays the war's bills.
Unfettered economies are the most prolific.
BigGov fetters too much, and BigGov spending fetters all taxpayers.
The war, which you cite as absolving several government excesses, is ostensibly about preserving the American way of life and its existence.
America's identity is its liberties (freedom of religion being one of many).
I am not willing let the Isloma-fascists take our liberties away with one attack, and I do give a rat's behind about the economy.
In WWII, the USA sent Japanese Americans to internment camps. In 2007, we shouldn't make all of America into an internment camp to fight "the war." We shouldn't give away to the FedGov the rights we're supposedly fighting to protect. We should fight threats to life, liberty, and property at home as well as abroad. They are not mutually exclusive.
Ducan spends too much of other peoples' money.
In your dreams.