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Originally posted by Centurion
In an economy that is struggling to keep its head above water, where are we going to find the money to maintain just the CURRENT level of spending let alone any increase in spending in Iraq?
The American economy cannot sustain this level of spending while at the same time pull itself up by the bootstraps to get back to pre-recession levels.
This is what we have to look forward to (among many other negative issues) under 4 more years of Bush??
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During the Second World War we found the money to put 16 million people in uniform with less than half the current population...and fight a global war for four years...with a small percentage of our current GNP.
During Vietnam...Eisenhower was the first to send troops to Vietnam...and we found the money to sustain our involvement in Vietnam untill 1973 and rotated more than 3 million soldiers into and out of Vietnam.
Why would you think that we now cannot find the money to sustain a war against terrorism...in which Iraq is a strategic part of that war? A war that some in this Administration has stated will last as long as ten years...and others have stated as long as thirty years?