What Price Freedom? What Price Your Safety?

House Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi still thinks it was a mistake to go to war, and cites the budget as a major concern:

The cost in human lives. The cost to our budget, probably $100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. The cost to our economy. But the most important question at this time, now that we’re toward the end of it, is what is the cost to the war on terrorism?

It’s fantastic that the biggest spokesperson for that party apparently has less interest in security and in the freedom for those in the Middle East than concern over short-term budget issues. Meanwhile, IA Sen. Tom Harkin (also a Democrat, unsurprisingly) called Saddam a “paper tiger.”

You gotta love liberals, my friends. For these two outspoken critics (heroes to the left?) made their grand pronouncements right as a former CNN newsman wrote about atrocities during the 1990’s the news group didn’t report, including torture and execution by Saddam and his sons. Good to see the Dems are still the sly political machine of old.

One last note: The EU will investigate US contracts in the rebuilding of Iraq. Why is that not surprising? Because that’s all Europe does — they ponder, they consider, they talk of conspiracies, but they do not act and they do not fight for safety or moral right. That is why Europe, whether you think they are in a “post-historical” world or whether you think they are simply and cynically playing their weak hand, is and will be largely irrelevant. All the more reason the UK should get out of the EU and the construction of a new network of trade and defense should begin with former Soviet bloc countries.

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