http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/02/ahmadinejad_we_have_brought_wo.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_saranoid_style_in_democrat.html

Terrorism affects all of us, enabling Terrorism as Clinton did throughout his 8 years cost us almost 3000 lives on 911. 911 is conceived, planned, financed and trained for on Clinton’s watch. The black hawk down incident in Somalia was planned and financed by Saddam Hussein and executed by OBL’s people, after which OBL said that success against the US gave them the confidence to move on to bigger things like 911. We were forced to clean up Clinton’s mess by invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, so if anyone made a mistake it was Clinton for enabling both Saddam and the terrorists. The Spanish pulled out of Iraq due to the train bombings, yet the terrorists targeted them again in 2007 anyway and would have been successful if their plot wasn’t foiled. The French and Germans didn’t participate in Iraq and even opposed it, yet they also were the targets of the same terrorists.

Like I said, you liberals are so caught up in the PC nonsense you are completely blind to the peril we are in. The object of all terrorism is for a small group to force their agenda on a larger group through intimidation. The successful exercise of power is their motivator. Every time you give in to terrorism, you enable the terrorist to move on to the next level. Every time you give in or condon by not responding you give the terrorist exactly what they want, POWER. Terrorists are not some group of annoying ants that you can ignore them because you are bigger. Terrorism is like a disease, once it takes hold it infects everything and only gets worse unless dosed with strong medicine. The Anbar awakening and the letter from the terrorist leader should be a clue to you as to what has to happen. But no, you, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and Reid will talk, talk, talk thus giving power to the terrorists and enabling them to esculate further. You never negotiate with terrorists as this gives them POWER and legitimacy.

Btw- you obviously have forgotten history as well, why don’t you do read a little history on the Barbary Pirates, they were the thieving terrorists of their day, what did Britian and other European countries do? They tried to pay them off thus guaranteeing the continuing the profitable terrorism. How did it end? Read for yourself and draw your own conclusions instead of listening to the Dem talking points. http://hnn.us/articles/287.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates

A little “historical context” on post-cold war military reductions, from the DoD (hint: Cheney did it!) h/t Americablog.com:
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/cheney.htm

“Except for FY 1991, when the TOA budget increased by 1.7 percent, the Cheney budgets showed negative real growth: -2.9 percent in 1990, -9.8 percent in 1992, and -8.1 percent in 1993. During this same period total military personnel declined by 19.4 percent, from 2.202 million in FY 1989 to 1.776 million in FY 1993. The Army took the largest cut, from 770,000 to 572,000-25.8 percent of its strength. The Air Force declined by 22.3 percent, the Navy by 14 percent, and the Marines by 9.7 percent.”

That decade-by-decade chart you linked to completely obscured this.

You wrote, “Your whole sense of proportion is absurd.” Why? Because I mourn the 4000 needless deaths and the 30000 needless maimings in Iraq? Do you honestly believe that we should keep our troops perpetually engaged in battle so they might experience a lower death rate? Please deploy, if you honestly think it will extend your life expectancy.

Every Iraq KIA and WIA was due to Bush’s mistaken invasion. The fact that more folks die in automobiles is as irrelevant now as it was when we were mired in Vietnam, and your comparison disrespects those who served and died in both wars.

Finally (and I mean that), do you know when “Clinton’s time” was? It would appear not.

In fact, if you type in the word “war” to see how many people quote die in “legal intervention/war” 2002 on back the rate has been in the hundreds even during Clintons time.
http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/Death_Rates1.pdf Here is the military fatality count from 1980 to 2007

Regarding positive economic impact from defense spending reductions, our Commander-in-Chief apparently disagrees with you:

From the Today Show via Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/18/bush-iraq-economy/

CURRY: You don’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war?

BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working.

Also, it should be noted that Reno & Klein v. Microsoft is seen by some as having set the stage for the NASDAQ bubble to burst.

All true, but the one thing that people forget about - and may be the most important event - is the incredible innovation and its adoption of miniaturization and computerization throughout business and society.