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Re: Billions of dollars have been spent to destroy Iraq,

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From: George
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:48
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"torresD" <torresd30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "FerdinandAkin" <FerdinandAkin@comcast.net
>
>
> > Hey Nazi troll, how many times to you have to cross post the same off
> > topic story?  You posted the same one in TPG about this time on
Saturday.
> > Are you so stupid you cannot figure out how to 'Get a Life"?
> > /sea/
>
>
> Relatively few Americans have been
> asked to fight in Bush's war on terror.
>
> Of those, too many have paid with their lives
> or returned home physically and psychologically
> crippled or maimed.
>
> http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/10535584.htm
> Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2005
> KENTUCKY VOICES
> War for energy independence
>
> By Dan Carey
> Americans take pride in fighting
> their own fights and paying their
> own way.
>
> Right now, we face troubled times.
>
> Unfortunately, for most of us,
> someone else is fighting our
> fight and paying our way.
>
> In November,
> Congress raised the federal debt limit,
> allowing the government to take $8.2
> trillion from our children -- 
>
> $27,800 for each of us.
>
> We send our children off to war and
> then hand them the bill when they get home.
>
> This is shameful.
>
> Nearly two years ago, President Bush declared war on Iraq.
>
> Thousands of families,
> Iraqi and American,
> have been destroyed.
>
> Billions of dollars have been spent to destroy Iraq,
> and billions will be needed to rebuild it.
>
> The outlook for a democratic Iraq is not promising,
> and the cause of Islamic radicalism has been strengthened.
>
> Relatively few Americans have been
> asked to fight in Bush's war on terror.
>
> Of those, too many have paid with their lives
> or returned home physically and psychologically
> crippled or maimed.
>
> The rest of us have been asked only to spend our tax refunds.
>
> Many who will never fight at the battle
> front think military force will bring us
> victory.
>
> Others think we must move beyond
> violence to overcome terror and hatred.
>
> Regardless of our belief,
> we all want to share in the struggle;
> we all want to pay our way.
>
> Islamic radicals don't hate
> us because we love freedom.
>
> They hate us for decades of meddling in Mideast affairs,
> for supporting a repressive regime in Saudi Arabia and
> for establishing a permanent military presence in the
> region after the Gulf War.
>
> We did those things to protect our strategic interests:
>
> containing communism and protecting our oil interests.
>
> Communism is gone, but the oil remains.
>
> As long as we have
> troops in the Middle East,
> there will be conflict.
>
> As the failure of military power
> becomes increasingly evident,
> more and more Americans realize
> that other strategies are needed.
>
> Reducing our need for foreign oil would
> let us begin finally to extricate ourselves
> from the Middle East.
>
> Such a reduction is inevitable;
> it's only a matter of when and how.
>
> Bush should enlist the American people
> in a war for energy independence,
>
> a war for freedom from the dictatorship of fossil fuels.
>
> This war would be one we could all fight.
>
> Every battle would be a constructive
> investment in America's future.
>
> Like the military struggle,
> the war for energy independence
> could be a long one,
>
> but we know how to fight it.
>
> We must begin.
>
> What better way for us all to share
> the burden than by paying the full
> cost for oil?
>
> According to the U.S. Department of Energy,
> U.S. motor gasoline consumption is about
> 375 million gallons a day.
>
> The cost of our military intervention
> in the Middle East is $190 million a day.
>
> A $1-a-gallon war tax on gasoline would
> pay for our intervention in the Middle East
> and a war for energy independence.
>
> The cost of gasoline in the early 1980s
> was $2.85 a gallon in current dollars.
>
> So this war tax would not be onerous.
>
> Instead of being disgruntled at the gas pump,
>
> we could take patriotic pride in paying our
> share and supporting our troops with more
> than magnetic ribbons and flags.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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