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Military spending during a time of war is good reason to incur deficits. Unfortunately, all the debts incurred during the GW BUSH administration were not defense related. Hundreds of billions were wasted on boondoggles. And it wasn't even our money being spent, but the money of future generations.

Now, you wonder if I am old enough to remember the Reagan deficits. Indeed I do. But I am also old enough to have experienced the lingering effects WWII on our nation, and the difficult choices made by that generation to act most prudent to guard what we have as there was no assurance it could be easily replaced tomorrow.

By his own admission, President GW Bush has stated the WOT may last decades. Because the enemy rising against us is in a region of the world that controls the vast oil and gas resources our nation is dependent upon, and if things turn very ugly, as they did during the Arab induced Oil Embargo during the Yom Kippur War, the wasteful spending of this administration will have us on our knees.

To win the war we must harden ourselves, not just militarily, but financially and with utmost respect for our limited mineral resources.

Riiiigt. And you actually think that a soft and pampered people would put up with "utmost respect for our limited mineral resources." LOL, what color is the sky in your world? Half this country isn't even aware there is a war. Most of this country was totally unaware of what Clinton did to our military. This war can't be fought like WWI or WWII, the days of Dresden, Hirosima are GONE. There is no way the US will EVER be able to fight a war like that again because our own people won't allow it.