Reply #51: If Wishes Were Horses ... [View All]

[3reddogs]

I'd like to see the Dems start hammering home the fact that it was good old-fashioned POLICE WORK by the UK that foiled the terror plot, not their military, not them dropping bombs on innocent civilians and not dodging IED's in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead of pouring billions of dollars into Iraq, the Dems should be asking why that money isn't being spent bolstering America's infrastructure, tightening port security, tightening our border security, etc. THAT's what's going to make America safer AND wouldn't it be great if all those billions were staying right here in America, boosting our own economy instead of Haliburton's bottom line and providing more jobs for Americans. (Oh wait, America, if left to the Repugs, they'd outsource everything to the UAE and God knows who else!)

The polls make it obvious that the majority of Americans already know that there's a better way to fight the war on terror and a better way to run this country than what they've seen for the last 6 years. Now it's up to the Dems to enunciate, loud and clear, exactly what THEY'D do about our national security. (Not "cut and run" -- redeploy; pour billions into America, not Iraq; bolster the CIA and FBI instead of allocating billions of dollars for a bloated Pentagon budget and more reliance on diplomacy instead of costly and failure-prone regime changes to defuse anti-Americanism!)