The war on terrorism has been described as a new kind of war with no clear national enemy, so why is the US planning to get bogged down in an old-school ground war? And since we're planning to send US soldiers to invade Iraq, why are we allowing the region to become even more armed and dangerous?
So, will American people be safer if we go to war in Iraq? Definitely not. Those in the military will be put in a war zone and those at home will have the war zone brought to their neighborhoods in ever increasing terrorist attacks on US cities. Will Americans be better off? Will we be able to enjoy our "way of life" as an intensifying war requires more and more of our tax dollars at the expense of everything else? US citizens will be even more reluctant and scared to cut the military budget which is already the largest in the world by far. The US military budget for 2003 is US$396.1 billion. The next closest spender is Russia at US$60 billion followed by China at US$42 billion (2000 figures are the latest available for these two countries).
Will Americans be better off if the US wages war in Iraq? Only if they are involved in the military industrial complex and/or big oil.
Sandy Schaeffer
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