Bush commutes Libby sentence

[kandrathe]

Well then, I would have to say that you have an extraordinarily mild view of this dishonest and unnecessary war, now costing the US an estimated $12bn a month, leaving aside the infinitely greater human costs.

I don't think we need to rehash the Saddam thing. War is the result of failed politicians -- in this case Saddam is equally to blame for his cat and mouse games. But, no wars are just, and politicians do not fight them. I have to agree with Colin Powell on this one; we broke it, now we better fix it.

9-11 cost New York about $100bn and some 2950 innocent lives. So is 2 trillion worth it to keep the war out of the US? I'd rather we fight the global war with al Queda in Baghdad as this point, rather than in New York or Detroit. I would predict that if we just pull out of Iraq, first many thousand Iraqi's will die, then battle will move to London and to the East Coast of the US within a year or two. Most people think we are still fighting a war with Iraq. In actuality, we are fighting a war in Iraq, but only a fraction of the combatants are Iraqi's. You have thousands of recruits from all over the Muslim world going there with Iranians supplying IEDs and other arms and Hezbollah fighters helping to train on the tactics that made Lebanon such a great nation. Its not like if we pull out of Iraq that the war with al Queda is over. We would just have given them a great place to base from and spread global jihad.