"John P. Mullen" wrote:

:When you are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the budget
:is chump change.

Huh?

:And, I don't see why creating enemies for the US faster than we can kill
r capture them is a good thing.

I also don't see how putting their boot on our neck and inviting them
to cut off our balls helps us much.

:Also, just because the US is engaging terrorists in Iraq does not mean
:they cannot also attack us at home. The terrorists the US is creating
:in Iraq are a different bunch than the ones that attacked the US.

And what's YOUR proposal, Mr Mullen? Is it something better than
"just give the terrorists everything they ask for"?

--
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed
and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks
that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has
nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more
important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature,
and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill