Grampy said:
Regrettably the way politics work congressmen and senators of both parties will always sneak in pet projects and they make easy targets to ridicule and as a grandparent I think a lot about what we are leaving my grandson. But you are swatting at flies while ignoring the dinosaur. The most “wasteful” civilian program ever invented is a joke compared to military costs. The whole nature of the military, which I served in proudly, is to produce nothing and waste much. According to one widely accepted figure: Any such figure is an estimate and this one is a year old but it was never seriously disputed and is probably somewhere close. So in comparison the doorknob = 12 sec. and even your African American project is just over one work shift. Hardly statistical noise. I’ve had to watch promising medical research programs shut down by a government trying to hide the cost of war even though they were a few hundred thousand dollars and might well have contributed substantially to the health and well being of all mankind. And saddest of all, we are talking about a war launched because of weapons of mass destruction which the CIA, DIA, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, NSA and the State Department in an unprecedented show of unity said weren’t there. But the White House alone “knew better” and ignored all advice to the contrary. And in doing so managed to become a powerful recruiting tool for terrorists while creating a new breeding ground for them train in. Unfortunately in addition to the human casualties, the economy and the Constitution also went missing in action. So you’re right about your future being put in hock but in the immortal words of Pogo, “we have met the enemy and he is us.” |
So when we move our majority of forces to Afghanistan under the SOFA, would you still agree with the then amount of military spending? Differences aside, that fight is key and most Dems agree with me as it was the original fight.
Edit: I meant the effects of the SOFA as the military will be leaving Iraq and transferring.