"War on Terror" Unfunded Options

[Midnight Rambler]

Bush, before:

“I believe it is the job of a President to confront problems, not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.”

Bush, now:

The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009.





Now the republicans are trying to tell us that Bush isn't a "real" conservative. He's not a Reagan conservative. Give me a break. He was the republican conservative wet dream when he was running the first time. When the second election rolled around everyone could see he was a disaster but the conservatives backed him anyway.


You can say what you want but Reagan never balanced a budget. Never even came close. Bush hasn't even tried. I do remember Clinton doing it. No, the republican congress didn't do it for him. If you do a little research you find that he had to shut down the government to force the republican congress to go along with a balanced budget.

Will your taxes go up with a Democrat in office? Yes. Becuase no matter who is elected the chickens are coming home to roost and you can't pay the bills by cutting your income (taxes).

[Blitz]

http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/...ws_1-14-99.html
I guess ABC news lied.... The video is proof!

http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/...ry_of_Terrorism
a lot of reading here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1520819/posts
The Clinton administrations case for war... err airstrikes to take the heat off the Monica issue anyway.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...30205-1.html#13
The actual UN briefing... Iraq was after all in violation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/09/...ain604971.shtml
Libya turned over a new leaf... I wonder why?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2846365.stm
Saddam pays terrrorists.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/20/gen.bush.transcript/
(the address to the nation after 9-11, please re-read / watch it in case you've fogotten)

I found these quotes interesting.

"Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. "

"It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated"

"And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists"

I guess I look at the war like this... We tried to catch Bin Laden in Afghanistan and failed. (no different than other administrations) finding a dead end there we want after another sponser of terrorism that was funding terrorism and harboring terrorists.

Did the administration muck things up in this war. Hell yes, are things getting better?
It seems like it to me...

People seem to forget that we are at war with terrorism / radical islam as a whole not only Bin Laden.
Creating a safe-haven for freedom and democracy in the middle east could have long lasting reprocussions that would be felt for generations. Maybe that was the idea?

I guess we should have just said Saddam was a terror supporting tyrant and went in, if anyone thinks this is all about WMD's I'm sure the government has a $5,000 toilet seat they could sell you.