I did not vote for Bush the second time! Also I never voted for Saxby, I respect the military.

First, we do have to go back to the original beginning of the war under Bush 1. We were still in that war, under only a cease-fire. We didn’t rebuild the nation then nor did we need to this time.

We won the war decisively as we did the first time but, this time we wanted to do more. We wanted a new government and everything after that followed that goal and then we wanted that government to be an ally and sell oil in dollars again and not do what Saddam did by selling it in euros, weakening the dollar.

Then we wanted an “ally” against Iran that was moving toward the sale of oil in euros. If we were going to go to war with them, we wanted to have a “military presence” next door in a friendly nation to us.

Then there was the advantage of massive defense spending that helped our economy out of the recession that was beginning to shape up before Bush took office.

The thing is, that we didn’t create the mess in Iraq. Saddam did, originally by invading Kuwait, and then by violating the cease fire in every way he could. WMD or not, the violations, like destroying (if he did) WMD stock piles the U.N. had documented, without U.N. supervision. That violation, alone, was enough to “justify” the war. We had no way of “proving” he had destroyed the WMD as required by the cease fire terms.

But, we didn’t have to blame ourselves for the mess. We didn’t have to “fix” anything more this time than the last. Our “fixing” had very little to do with the Iraq people and everything to do with our military positioning and our stimulating our economy.

I don’t believe “war,” should be used for “stimulating” the economy. I also don’t believe that a weakening dollar should be justification for war. Nor do I believe we should be dependent on foreign sales of oil in dollars to keep it propped up.

We do have a responsibility to finish something we started so, yes, I agree we need to finish the job. That is the one major thing I disagree with Paul on although, he would, I sincerely believe, if Congress demanded it, continue to do what is necessary. His major beef is a Congress that authorizes use of force without declaring war and then nitpicks and undermines everything that is done with that authorization for political gains.

It is why I wrote and opposed the war to begin with. I told my representatives that what has happened would happen due to the political war between the parties.

I would guess that you believe that Iraq was a mess we created. If that’s the case, why don’t you think we have a responsibility to fix it before we leave?

Although I would suggest we get out of Iraq now. This “war” was false to begin with and I don’t support projects that are based on lies.

The Neo-Cons, are Traitors, in my opinion, as they hold higher allegiance to other nations or concepts!

Did you vote for Bush and Saxby??? Then you also supported the increase in debt.

SPIN SPIN SPIN!