[FloridaGeezer]

I hope you don't misunderstand me. If I had all the money in the world Saddam would be history. If you'll note the direction our national debt is going, the money pot is about empty and there is not a much prospect of refilling it.

[sarasmom]

While I applaud your fiscal concerns, may I suggest there will be none to pay the debt if the despots in the Middle East are allowed to continue to kill us at their leisure.

Between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, I am not sure who goes first.While I would put them at #2 and #3, my opinion is only a wild a$$ed guess. I am trusting my life, and that of my child on Bush,Rumsfield and Powell having a pretty good handle on the strategy and tactics that will lower this country's body count.Both at home and abroad.

The alternative is to trust overt enemy propaganda and various usefull idiots, such as the NYTs.We can work our way out of debt. We can't do so while dead at the hands of our self avowed enemies.

[elfman2]

" the money pot is about empty and there is not a much prospect of refilling it."

I think I understand your concerns, but I think that any money pot in a government has a life span of a sneeze. So perhaps the question is do we go into hundreds of billions of dollars in dept funding a military deterrent to our enemies, or in expanding social programs. Reagan chose the former.