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[Peter]

Congress is not going to vote to stop paying for a war, that punishes the troops. The president controls the military, the funding comes later.

By the time the next president takes office, the war will have lasted longer than the Civil War, World War I and World War II. If Iraq can't step up and take control of their country by then, we have no business being there. The terrorists are there because we are there. There were no terrorists until there were 160,000 Americans to terrorize. There are terrorists all over the Middle East and we cannot invade all those countries.

As Colin Powell said the other day, John McCain's surge plan is unsustainable. Our military is on track to run out of troops very quickly at the current level of deployment. So are you proposing a draft? The armed forces miss their recruitment targets month after month and there simply won't be enough people to fight this war in the coming years.

Also, I find it very scary that the military could not respond to any attack that happened right now because we have so many forces tied up in Iraq.

[hyak.net]

I thought this was a thread on the IRS? We should send the IRS to Iraq.

[Lift Dinosaur]

Hyak,
That always seems to be the problem. Old men send young men to war. If the old men were sent, it would be over in a heart beat.
I'm with you - send the IRS.

Dino

[mikest2]

Lift Dinosaur, on Apr 20 2008, 07:53 PM, said:

Hyak,
That always seems to be the problem. Old men send young men to war. If the old men were sent, it would be over in a heart beat.
I'm with you - send the IRS.

Dino

If it's anything like Canada, there is more of them anyway !!

[Emax]

"send the IRS."

Now there's a tactic we haven't tried! Tax them into submission. I'll bet that the Feds would have them on their knees within the fiscal year.

[liftmech]

What happened to the idea of a balanced budget? That the money going out must equal the money coming in? This is part of why the tax code is so frustrating. Regardless of which side of the aisle one is on, fiscal responsibility seems to have gone out the window. In personal life, when you apply for a loan, it can be denied because the institution or person making the loan sees that you're overstretched already. I'd need to find exact figures, but I've seen recently where a rather large percentage of our GDP goes to merely servicing the debt. That doesn't include any funds going to actually paying down the debt. One of the ironies of this is that during the '90s, when we had budgetary supluses, I recieved a smaller (or no) refund even though I was a poor college student/entry-level mechanic. Now that I've risen in the income bracket and we have a national debt again, I receive all my withholdings back plus a bit more because I have kids. Which parties were in power when, again?