[rabscuttle385]

Fiscal conservatives should be the ones most horrified by all this spending. Conservatives who oppose big government and huge deficit spending at home should not support it in foreign countries just because it is being done by our biggest bureaucracy, the Defense Department.

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[Hugin]

One Republican Member from California told me recently that we could buy off every warlord in Afghanistan for $1 billion.

That's been my thought from the get-go.

[ConorMacNessa]

How long will they stay bought off?

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[SmokingJoe]

One Republican Member from California told me recently that we could buy off every warlord in Afghanistan for $1 billion

Yeah, and like any whore that can be bought for money, they will turn round and screw with others, right after taking our money. What is America going to do when the Taliban take our money, then turn round and start another jihad with Al Quaeda, the moment US troops leave Afghanistan?
And what will this congressman do, if Al Quaeda come and bomb New York again, after we've left Afghanistan because we “paid off the warlords”?

[darkwing104]

Looks like someone else has been drinking the Kook-Aid...

Que up the 9-11 pics.

[dforest]

Fiscal conservatives also like to stay alive. This guy sounds like Ron Paul.

[murphE]

Is that the voice of reason I hear?

[bamahead]

Conservatives who oppose big government and huge deficit spending at home should not support it in foreign countries just because it is being done by our biggest bureaucracy, the Defense Department.



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[Allegra]

Fiscal conservatives should be the ones most horrified by all this spending.

We spend far more on welfare and other entitlements.

Whacking terrorists is in the best interests of our national security.

How 'bout we go after spending on garbage like in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants, TARP and other such nonsense instead?

[NeoCaveman]

We have now spent $1.5 trillion that we did not have--that we had to borrow--in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eight years is long enough. In fact, it is too long. Let's bring our troops home and start putting Americans first once again.

What good is freeing the mideast only to enslave ourselves to the Chicoms?

[MortMan]

Removing a huge wasp’s nest from the house has costs - but so does ignoring the wasps until they start stinging in earnest.

Defense is one of the few legitimate functions of the federal government. The cost of defense should be taken straight out of extra-constitutional functions, IMO.