Waffle! Gitcher waffles fer just "change!"! Servin' up good un's like: Dems say China very good in 1960's, very bad in 2008, or maybe not! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
 
Surely, it doesn't take ANY kind of partisan to remember that throughout his 2004 Presidential campaign, Senator Kerry made it a mantra to say: "You can't fight a war on the cheap!" in re Iraq; he and booster General Wes Clark (father of VoteVets) were fond of telling troops: "Help is on the way!"; Kerry also said you can't "just throw up" your hands re Iraq; even Howard Dean thought Kerry should've won in 2004.
 
In 2008, amid all the incense and peppermint, wishes for somebody to love, and singing along to "War Pigs", oh how the Democrat times have been a-changin'...and other 1960's stuff visible only to them.
 
Indeed, if one bothers to look at ALL war spending, one of even grade-school math comprehension can calculate Iraq has been a drop in the bucket compared to money sent to each and every State as well as Towns...for everything from healthcare to roads to farms to transit to education and beyond. Yes, 2004 hopeful John Kerry WAS right that Iraq is USA security on the cheap, if not right why.
 
Recently Senator John McCain said that the economy has been much improved over the past eight years, and going by what's been paid for by the Federal government to sub-governments, as reflected by many high local salaries, and including DHS and assorted disaster/emergency funds, things SHOULD be relatively hunky-dory most places...Illinois even reduced job help, foodbanks, and shelter services in reflection of their own prosperity, if now hemming and hawing re same. 
 
Yet in Illinois for example, a State 100% Democrat-run since 2002, what has the State made monies received be spent upon? Apart from Churches, Roman Catholic and thereto Protestant, which practice gay to global liberation theology, it seems little money had by Illinois (even its own income taxes) gets spent on anything it's sent for...except say big dollars for faith-funding ultra-anti-gay Byzantine Catholic faith of which Democrat Gov. Blagojevich is a member, even if BYZANTINE is the biggest Christianity Muslims yap about in the Mid East and Democrats say the Roman Catholic POPE is "a Crusader" who won't "modernize".
 
The latest resurgence of Illinois "Hate Bush!" and "gimme Iraq funds NOW!" butt cover: yesterday on local CLTV, Mayor Daley was shown in renewed whining Chicago has this aging fleet of transit vehicles, blah, blah, blah, boo-hoo, and of course it's all due to folks who can't see yesterday is water under the bridge and now won't keep coughing up without strings (idea: do something first, submit bills). And we already know what Illinois Senator Obama thinks about folks who won't support liberation theology or think it will ever go away...here, in Iran, in Iraq, in Syria, in Ladenland, or elsewhere. Maybe McCain was right to stall more funds to STATES for vets; maybe all the cash already sent should have accounting.
 
For such res gestae as a commoner may observe, I again reiterate my support of George Walker Bush; of Pope Benedict XVI; and of any defensive or economic USA confraternity with other nations which does not require any in such confraternity to meld or give up its sovereignty...which latter point cannot be implied by mere presence of immigrants.