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Originally posted by Spanky
If this were only true. They can't put up all sorts of trade barriers and restrictions to try and prevent outsourcing etc. and in the end they will just hurt our competitiveness"
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Wow -- the House really has an awful lot of power. I had no idea.
Especially if it has a slim majority of Dems, who as we know are uniformly disciplined and always march in step.
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All they will do is cut off funding and encourage the insurgents. Then Iraq will become the quagmire they are pretending it is now (we haven't even gotten to ten percent of the casualties we have had in every other war this century) - except of course Guld War One. If you assume the war has cost 300 billion, that is just a little over ten percent of one years budget. We spend more money on farm subsidies. In terms of percentages of GNP by far the cheapest war this century - except of course Gulf War I.
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This is such a crock of shit that even you should be able to figure that out. How many Dems have actually called for cutting off funding?
As for encouraging the insurgents -- I thought that was Bush's plan? Y'know, "bring it on"?
And as for the cost of the war, it's exceeded projections by a factor of--- 10? 100? To argue now that "it's still kinda cheap" is pretty lame, even for you. And is it cheaper than Kosovo? Afghanistan? I mean, you aren't even right about the "this century" part, and the century is only 6 years old.
