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My favorite trite-but-true observation is this: When your problem is a hole, the first step to solve it is to stop digging.  Despite high (for Americans) gas prices, the economy in general and environmental problems unaddressed since the 70s, our hole is still the war in Iraq.  Once we stop digging, we might be able to get back to work that matters.  But....

I’ve heard we spend $12 billion (or so) each month in the Bush/McCain war.  Now… I wish our presidential candidates (by our I mean the Democratic ones, one of whom will be in the White House early next year) would remember this is not real money we can bring home and spend on wonderful, much-needed, tax-and-spend projects. At least stop telling us your ending the war will make solving other problems affordable.

At best, if we did not spend this money each month in Iraq, we might reduce our borrowing Chinese dollars. Worst case...and likely case...we’d slowly begin to lower the amount of interest we pay for what we already owe the Chinese for our previous six years of idiotic war-making.

We’ll get no peace dividend from this war. Our grandchildren, however, will inherit the massive debt we created by following the madman in the White House. I didn’t vote for him; I just have to pay for him. And 8 year-old Cameron and 4-year-old Sullivan and 4-year-old Gabriel and and 7 month-old Brody - my grandchildren - will pay for him for the rest of their lives.

Our next president must promise nothing but that we rebuild what we have destroyed; we need a president who will lead us to accept the sacrifices we must make to save our democracy.

R3W

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