You also go on to say that the US are just “different” kinds of terrorist. I like to remind you that the US could have easily nuked the countries but yet they are willing to give the country a chance at freedom, just like they did in Vietnam FOR ME.

The US news agencies may be a bit biased, but the international news outlets generally aren’t. Try getting your news from CNN or the BBC instead of Al Queda’s billboards.

I would have made this list longer, but I didn’t want to stray too far from the point that this war was based on intel being fed to our government by reiable sources.

The claim that any of these services or members in our government had hijacked and distorted the contents of the intel that was being consumed by the Administration and Congress is a Howard Dean talking point. Which has been disproven by two bipartisan investigations into the subject matter.

Therefore, this claim lacks veracity like the CS Monitor, Huffington Post, and the Center for Public Integrity. These sources are the liberal equivalent to the conservative think tanks; The American Thinker, and the Enterprise Institute for Research of Public Policy. Don’t get me wrong, I will listen to each of these as open minded as I can. However, I still take their opinions with a grain of salt.

For the American Thinker article I had cited earlier, I double checked it. Randall Hoven did not miscontrue anything. The results he put into his article were consistent with the Bureau of Census statistical abstract’s findings. So I was able to drop the skepticism I had when I first read his article before looking into his sources.

If you look through the brillig.com website where the the national debt clock is located, you will find multiple reports. One of them has graphs in it, and it will show our debt broken down into four parts and that consists of; Defense/Military, Social Spending, Interest, and Other. According to the graph which is updated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a majority of our debt is for social spending which is; schools, medicare, social security, roads, welfare, etc. It is growing 14 times faster than the U.S. economy, this is the culprit behind both, our debt and our declining dollar.

Your claim that every penny that is being charged is for the defense/military aspect is ludicrous. Although that would be true for social spending. I examined the debt the best I can, why don’t you? It’s simply not enough for me to tell you, you got to go to that website, and look into it yourself. However, I would love to ask myself, how am I going to pay for the messed up deficit that the previous generation had left me, what kind of economy will I pass to the generation after mine. Why did my folks spend so much on social spending? I mean, I understand that these were intended to open windows of opportunity for the less wealthy, but all it did was make my country even more poor and it created more poor people. These things no doubt need to be pondered, if we want to find a solution.

Honestly, I think your so called “homework for the heroes” would be a perfect assignement for everyone, not just military members and supporters specifically. We could all use some sharpening when it comes to how well we are informed. There are plenty of helpfl sources out there.

Another good source would be the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract. According to this source, about 3 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product is spent on defense(one of lowest rates in our country’s history) which consists of; the military’s regular spending seperate from the wars, maintaining and replacing equipment, and the wars. However, GDP is not the only thing that contributes to our spending abilities. We also collect taxes, and as of recent years the tax rates have been one of the highest in history. My generation pays more for taxes than our parents and grandparents did.

When you combine the tax collections and the GDP we get the country’s total purchasing capabilities, which means the defense/military spending aspect of it has to be much less than 3 percent, given that defense spending is about 3 percent from GDP alone.

I’ll just end things here with a quote from the Grandfather Economic Debt Report: “Social spending increases can no longer be camouflaged by defense reductions”. This says it all, our debt is caused from social spending. If there is anyone here who needs to do their homework most, it is you, Morton. I have nothing personal against you, but your claims have no veracity. Here are the links to the websites I had mention in the event you do not know where to start searching.

Sources cited;

1.) Grandfather Federal Economic Debt Report.
URL: http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/debt_a.htm#culprit
- graph from the Bureau of Economic Analysis is towards the bottom.

2.) Debt Clock.
URL:
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

3.) Statistical Abstract from Census Bureau.
URL:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

4.) Barack Obama Test; this breaks the Statistical Abstract down making it easier to understand it’s results.
URL:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/the_barack_obama_test.html

I have to warn you guys though. I don’t really like the last one, which is the American Thinker source. It is a conservative think tank. Don’t get me wrong, I like both Dems and Republicans a little bit, even though I am non partisan. However, their think tanks sometimes misconstrue facts on purpose and unconsciously for partisan gain and to defend their talking points.

Do you hate LBJ for his war in Vietnam? Do you hate the Japanese and the French for their war in Vietnam? Or is it just the USA that you find unattractive?

Also, I don’t think that Bush should be the person to blame for what the insurgents and the Mahdi Army have been doing in Iraq for the past 5 years. If there is anyone who has blood on their hands for all these deaths, it should be them. After all, most of the deaths that have taken place were not caused from fighting, or the foreign coalition’s presence.

They were caused by IED’s, VBIED’s, and suicide bombers from the sunni insurgency who is trying to start a war with the Shia members of the Iraqi government through the means of sectarian violence. Another culprit is the fighting and violence in Nineveh province from the Iranian backed Shia extremists in the Mahdi Army.

His ranting and ravings sound about the same.

Morton, you must have been hurt very very much to have that much rage. I am so sorry that you have been hurt so bad.