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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
I care about the enviornment too. But i still think that 87 billion to solidify the situation in iraq, then move on to Syria and Iran is a worthwhile option. I would rather my children grow up in a safe land with less National Oil Reserves than one where we are constantly concerning ourselves with where the next terrorist threat is coming from.
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But we already do spend way too much energy concerning ourselves with where the next terrorist threat is coming from, in spite of that 87 billion dollars. We're a country that has "national terrorist alert" levels divided into colors that we check before work everyday. Every time a country says something negative about us we accuse them of terroristic sentiment and contemplate invading them. Those are not the actions of a country which's citizens feel safe.
I certainly don't feel any safer because he's spent almost 90 billion extra dollars on "rebuilding" Iraq. I didn't feel like Iraq was a legitimate threat before the war, and even if I had, I feel like we have more to fear now after "pre-emptively" attacking them than we did when we just let them be.
Plus -- and this is the point the article posted above is trying to make -- I certainly don't feel like I can trust a president who has tried to make us believe there was a link between Saddam and Osama in order to create more support for his anti-Iraq agenda. How can you trust a president who has led you to believe something that isn't true in order to further an agenda that is actually going to increase anti-American sentiment around the globe (and presumably increase terroristic mindsets as well)?
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