Reply #63: "Take back the defense issue"?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Let's take back the defense issue by telling the truth, namely that:

1. Iraq is a quagmire, and we are now a huge part of the problem, not the solution
2. The whole Iraq War was based on lies and was morally unjustifiable.
3. The American people are being heavily propagandized to believe that we're doing good over there.
4. The Bush administration has a whole laundry list of countries it wants to screw up next.
5. The U.S. spends more money on its military than the next ten countries combined, and it still can't supply its troops properly because all the money goes to contractors who overcharge the govt. to build weapons against enemies that don't exist instead of the enemies that actually do exist.

It's as if the Republicans were bragging about how they were protecting the American people from tigers, and the Democrats, instead of saying, "Tigers pose no danger to the average American," try to one-up the Republicans by saying, "We're going to do better at protecting you from tigers." That's basically what Kerry's campaign was about.