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faithful_servant · #11 (**permalink**) 06-26-2008, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by foundit66

Part of the point is WHAT IT COSTS Americans...

And when you look at "ALL" of what's going on, including the $1-2 trillion price tag, the 4,000+ dead soldiers, the total number of years we'll have to dedicate to the issue, and the fact that we have actually INCREASED the Iraqi casualty rate ...

The REAL underlying issue is IS IT WORTH IT...

You quoted one days worth of events.
That day cost the American tax-payers $720,000,000.
War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says - washingtonpost.com

There is a bill in Congress right now that wants to help 400,000 mortgage owners for $300 billion.
That's 1 year and two months in Iraq...
And while I personally question the bill's purpose, I can't help but think of all that money we are throwing at Iraq, that COULD be going to helping America in OUR time of crisis.

Is it WORTH it?

Absolutely!!

When did the idea that freedom had a price limit become so popular among the left? For decades we've listened to a message from the left that we should be doing something to fight oppression and now when we do so, the issue becomes the money?? Does freedom mean so little to you that you would deny it people because it cost too much?? Don't get me wrong, Iraq is now at a place where they need to start paying some of their own bills, but they could not have gotten to that place w/o our help. The millions of Iraqis who lived in enforced squalor would still be living there, afraid for their lives, afraid to spreak out, afraid to fight against their oppressors if we hadn't stepped in. When did the lives of people become a dollar figure to the left??? When did they lose their roots of sacrifice for the greater good and turn to this new focus on the dollar cost of freedom??