Vikram Dhunta

Smedley D. Butler, a Major General for the US Army at the turn of the last century, said:

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

Saddam was sentenced to death two days before the midterm but that didn't stop the Donkey from getting in while the GOP continued to resist an Iraq timetable. Bush wants a fence to fend off illegal Mexicans immigrating from the south - a fence that's 1100 Km long and is going to cost upto $6 Bn.

Iraq is costing the US about $1.4 Bn a week; about $300bn has already been spent. Would it have been cheaper to make US borders and ports (and embassies around the world) impenetrable? Once Afghanistan was freed and Saddam was caught, would it have been cheaper to focus on securing its own house than trying to find every criminal on the other side of the world?

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