Let's put end to failed GOP policies

I am puzzled and amazed that the Iraq war is seldom mentioned by either party candidate as a significant factor to our current financial crisis. We have been spending $10 billion to $12 billion per month in an unnecessary, illegal and unjustified war.

We are responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands, of which more than 4,000 were young Americans. For what? We have ground-leveled a sovereign country that posed no immediate threat to anyone and now we have to spend billions to rebuild it. Why? So that the Halliburton-type companies can fatten their bottom line? This money could have gone a long way toward helping the ailing U.S. dollar.

America used to be the most admired country in the world. This is no longer the case, to put it mildly. Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin, and my favorite, Sen. Joe Lieberman do not seem to have a clue on what is going on in the world. I will not even bother to mention President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. That's a no-brainer.

I hope that the arrogant and miserably failed Republican foreign policies are not to be continued.

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Brad D. Oct 24, 2008, 7:44am EDT

You're absolutely right!

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Randee "The Court Jester of LaLa Land ! ! !" always and forever, I just want to celebrate Oct 24, 2008, 7:54am EDT

I'm pretty sure that McCain and Palin will do a much better job than Bush.........

all across the boards Jack.............

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Jack E. Oct 24, 2008, 7:58am EDT

Randee all you are looking at with McCain is more Bush failed policy and if Palin is so fiscal conservative why does she sport so much expensive clothes at the public expense that donated money to the GOP that is supposed to be used for nothing but campaign funding?

Its really a shame that people are stuck in party lines to the point they refuse to see what is really happening.

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Robert A. Oct 24, 2008, 8:18am EDT

You're so right Jack. We have been spending $120,000 per minute in Iraq for days, weeks, months, and years. Just imagine if, over the last five years, the government made available $120,000 every minute for SBA loans for start-up and business improvements.

There's no question, McCain would continue the basic Bush "defense" policies that will have us all swirling down the drain together, Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

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WM H. Oct 24, 2008, 8:43am EDT

It is difficult to get excited by McCain's constant droning on about $18 billion a year in earmarks when we are spending $10 billion a month in Iraq.

It seems like misdirection of the first order.

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