and look at this, House Majority Whip James Clyburn has a thing for Chantilly Donuts, spending about $265 at the Virginia shop in the past quarter. What 170,000+ and they can’t buy their own damn doughnuts? At work when we want doughnuts, we go out and spend our own money for them.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/12/afghanistan-america-gets-ready-to-ante.html

How about that Gillie? Why dont YOU sacrifice Obama’s $6 Trillion Dollar Fascist health care takeover? Why dont YOU sacrifice the multi-trillion dollar Cap and Trade power grab?

I am willing to sacrifice those fascist power grabs right this second. NEITHER of which we can afford. Either one of which could pay for the war many times over. Why arent you?

I think it should be new taxes.

What say you?

So you have ZERO interest in paying for it then?

While you’re on the liberal BS horse about how we must all “sacrifice”, how about putting Granny Botox on Greyhound between DC & SFO? The libs could set an example rather than bitching that everybody else “sacrifice” while excluding themselves.

You see, the left wants to establish as fact the FDR model of war, where if we go to war, it means the federal government MUST raise taxes, ration, set price controls, and seize all sorts of new powers that have nothing to do with war whatsoever.

Bush proved that the best way to help the war effort is to keep the economy running strong by freeing it up, not by seizing control over it. His tax cuts grew the economy, created jobs, and increased revenue to the federal government, making the war MORE affordable, not less.

One of the many reasons they worked so hard to undermine and discredit that war which liberated 25 million people and turned an avowed, rogue enemy into a democratic ally.

My only fear is Obama thinks pigs and their feces are more important.

revoke benefits to ilegals

turn over more of medicare/medicaid to private insurances. the savings in fraud elimination alone will pay for it.

See gillie, it’s easy when you do more than parrot talking points.

Rescind the remaining “stimulus” spending.

After all, gillie, I’m sure you would agree that our country’s defense is more important than sending billions of dollars to imaginary Congressional districts and into the pockets of Obama’s cronies, wouldn’t you? Don’t you believe that tax dollars are better spent on our soldiers and their benefits than on paying off people who Obama and his cronies sexually harass?

That really shows you the priorities of the Obama Party; it hasn’t a dime to spend on our country’s soldiers and defense, but it has all the money in the world to buy its way out of criminal and wasteful behavior.

It seems we spent at least 1.2 trillion dollars since 2001 on these wars.
That does not include the added costs of benifits to our soliders after they return home too!

I think it should be new taxes.

What say you?

Perhaps instead of attemptng to assist the Afghan government in training-up an National Army, we should instead be recruiting and training our own Afghan regiments in the manner of the British Gurkas for local service as militias and overseas deployment serving our interests.

I’d point out that While President Bush did delay too long, he enacted the surge (which many on the left and the right opposed) and deployed what was requested. It turned out to be the correct thing, but he gave the men and materials his generals requested.

With Afganistan, I fear that the 30k troops won’t be enough. He will be able to appease the centre in ‘doing something’ while telling his anti-war party ‘We’ll let them fight for a bit, declare it’s too much, and go home.”

Our military as props, again.

As to the Johnson comparison, don’t forget, Nixon got us out of Vietnam, it was only when congress cut funding to our allies (wow, that seems to be a habit) that the south fell.

I don’t claim to have a positive answer on what should/could be done in Afghanistan, and don’t claim that Obama’s decision is good or bad, should it be a limited and tailored “surge-lite,” but the destabilization in Afghanistan can be at least to some extent pinned on the lack of focus on the “Older War” under the previous administration as much as any other factor.

Juan Cole knows what he’s talking about. If he’s even a little bit correct, Obama and your nephews are sleepwalking into a minefield.

The problem with the left-wing Presidents from Kennedy on has been, they haven’t fought to win. They have only set up meat grinders (thanks TL) that will let them posture and preen about their alleged moral sensitivity while young Americans die for a cause that the left-wing President has no real ability to desire to win. It’s almost as though such Presidents want America to suffer.

but we’ll see if this ’surge-on-the-cheep’ will have many parents or is an orphan.