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Article #31586Re: Billions of dollars have been spent to destroy Iraq,
From: George
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:48
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:48
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Headers of offending message: "Xref: news co.general:278842 talk.politics.guns:2283415 alt.politics.usa.republican:2520446 alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights:115937 alt.politics.liberalism:1090049 co.denver.general:16638 Path: pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthl ink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POST ED!e0415be6!not-for-mail From: "torresD" <torresd30@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: co.general,talk.politics.guns,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.usa.c onstitution.gun-rights,alt.politics.liberalism,co.denver.general References: <DuWBd.7048$JC2.5136@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> <tsWdnTV3ZqxfpkXcRVn-uw@comcast.com> Subject: Re: Billions of dollars have been spent to destroy Iraq, Lines: 156 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <8eXBd.11565$qf5.5905@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 18:40:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.41.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1104691204 165.247.41.39 (Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:40:04 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:40:04 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net" "torresD" <torresd30@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8eXBd.11565$qf5.5905@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net... > > "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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