tsk tsk joker, i'm supprised you put such a low cost on your fellow american lives.
because that is the true cost of this war
As I said before... 264 US soldiers have been killed this year. That's less than 1 per day. That's low for a conflict by anyone's account, I think. And to clarify, I'm not putting a low cost on my fellow Americans' lives... but I do think the cost of life (in general) is overrated. Not to say that it is worth nothing, but everything is relative. How can you put a price on life? Where do you draw the line? Do you kill one to save millions? Hundreds to save thousands? That is an ethics argument... I was referring to the monetary cost.
(for z6joker9)what are you talking about? i respect your choice but we are spending Billions each day in iraq and the republicans gave Wall st. 700 billion dollars (our $700 billion) Why are we paying for the mistakes of major banks anyway, they make a mistake, WE pay for it and this is a REPUBLICAN project iraq was REPUBLICAN, with bill clinton, we had a money surplus, and then came bush...spent trillions in iraq and billions for bank mistakes (with our money) and also, why does McCain say obama's not ready to lead...hes like 72 and if he dies in office from a heart attack or something, were stuck with someone with less exerience than obama (palin) what is she doing trying to be vice president anyway...in my opinion, Palin has no buisness being in that position...obama wasnt really my choise in the beginning though...but i just hated all of the republican canidates so my choice was the democratic nomonie...im just hoping...just hoping...that obama wins...also McCain wants to break up cunstuction unions...if he becomes president...my family PERSONALLY, will bs screwed.
I'm not choosing McCain, btw, just simply clearing up a few things. Where do you get the "billions" a day figure from? Why do you blame the GOP for the bailout? Both parties are to blame, Democrats more than others for many various reasons (including Bush warning them about Freddy/Fannie in 03 and the Democrats blowing it off). Clinton's policies are much of what brought on this economic crisis. Did you know we dropped into recession near the end of his second term?
McCain is quite healthy, but yes, he is old. If he dies in office, then we'll have an inexperienced candidate. If the Democrats win, though, we'll have the same inexperience without someone having to die first. That sounds like faulty logic to me.
Who says McCain wants to break up unions? I mean, I personally do not like unions, but whatever, they are pushing vehicle plants from Detroit into Mexico and the South (Toyota has the second floor of the building I work in, preparing to open their nearby plant), so it looks like unions benefit me too.
I leave the economy to the Republicans and the civil liberties to the Democrats. I don't trust either of them with taxes, limited government or state's rights.
