I think it’s great that they’re pumping their money into building an industry that will eventually benefit us, but I don’t want to do the same. We’ve already pumped a lot of money into rebuilding their country. It’s about time they return some of it. So when I buy some cheap solar panels in a few years, I’ll think of it as repayment of the war debt from over half of a century ago. In the meantime, German citizens are being bilked to support a green-dream that, if left to itself, would probably have produced the same results a few years later at a much lower cost to the average person.

Liberals need lessons in economics.

But to respond to what you’ve said, this is a just war. The American people were in support of the war prior to going to the U.N. where it appears that Colin Powell changed the argument from the fact that Saddam was a danger to the region and to our nation to one that focused on WMD. I did not need to see WMD to know that he was dangerous and needed to be removed from power. We gave a nation back to it’s people and made our own nation safer by doing so.

George Bush (and his administration) never lied to the American people. If he had he would have been impeached by now. Instead, the liberal attack machine, which you seem to be aligned with, went after anyone they could in the administration. And who did they get? Scooter Libby, a third string staffer. And how did they get him? By pushing an investigation beyond it’s logical conclusion, turning it into nothing more than overly-aggressive, and probably illegal, prosecutorial malfeasance. The prosecutor knew that it was an anti-Bush pinhead from the state department that leaked Plame’s name, which wasn’t a crime (as seen in the fact that he hasn’t been prosecuted) long before Libby made a mistake in his answers. My point is, the best liberals could do in finding ‘lies’ in this administration was the flimsiest case that wouldn’t have gone to court if not for the blind zeal of anti-Bush leftists.

In polls, most people who say they no longer support the war said that they changed their mind due to the way it was run, not because they changed their mind about it being a just war.

As for the rest of what you said, all I can say is, “cliché away.” You might want to get your head out of the liberal playbook and face reality.

Today’s Oregonian Headline: Northwest’s wind power could quadruple
A BPA assessment shows developers are ready to build wind farms, but power lines can’t handle much more.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1216529717321800.xml&coll=7

Maybe you’re sincere in your comments, but the things you’re saying are straight out of a liberal playbook that tries to paint anti-war, anti-troop liberals as mainstream by diminishing the patriotism and heart-felt support for the troops that comes from the majority of Americans. In most surveys and polls about the war a supermajority say that we need to stay there and win. To put it another way, most Americans support the troops AND THEIR MISSION.

And to say that people who showed up at McChord this weekend were just there for an air show but don’t support the war is just plain hogwash. It seems to me to be a clear attempt to diminish the real support for the troops that exists everywhere except a few liberal enclaves like Seattle and downtown Tacoma. To put that another way, liberals are quick to dismiss facts that don’t support their narrow world view.

Again, the Independence day air show on Tacoma’s waterfront was just an air show. This weekend was far more and liberals are well aware of that fact.

Sorry, but I make it a point to call liberals on their doubletalk.

No one disputes that Iraq had WMD in 1991 (and did use them against Iran, with our blessing, and against the Kurd rebellion). We even provided chemical warfare suits to Iraq so their soldiers could survive WMD use. However, Iraq did not have WMD after that time - except what was inventoried and secured by the inspectors (found still secured when we invaded - but left ungaurded by us in the post-invasion period of looting).

Our military does not decide when to go to war. Our elected politicians do. We ask the troops to be ready if needed. They hope we will only use them for a just purpose. If we allow our political leaders to abuse the troops willingness to serve by committing them to an unneeded war, it is not their fault. It is the politicians who start unnecessary wars that we dishonor, not the troops.

The ends do not justify the means, nor does committing troops to a wrong war make the war right. War doesn’t decide who is right - only who is left.

It’s an airshow.