Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Iraq War and Homeland Security Budgets

An estimated $434 billion (USD) has been spent on the Iraq War. DHS costs us around $50 billion (USD) a year. We don't really seem to be getting our money's worth. The Bush administration's official position on the war is that our continued military presence in Iraq will keep terrorist organizations from "following us home". One can argue that the averted terror attacks the administration keeps patting themselves on the back about are proof that their reasoning is seriously flawed. You can point to the Fort-Dix-Six and the foiled plot to bomb New York's JFK airport as recent and continuing examples of terrorist groups following us home. DHS's inability to close our borders to an obviously ill TB patient, who was positively identified by a DHS border agent and still allowed to pass, and their failure of keeping a terrorists from illegally entering the county point out DHS's problems.

How can we justify retaining our war-mongering leaders, and consider a man for President who has a bad track record defending things. Why don't you write your congressional representative and tell them you support the impeachment and removal from office of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. Let Pelosi have a go at it.

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