Brian

In class today we talked about the war and what was going to happen in it. The thing that i found extremely stupid about the war though is that the President cannot figure out what he will do in this situation. We read this article that stated some ideas on the issue of what to do and the President has already dismissed these set of ideas. He has shown nothing towards having any plan what to do next only that he will announce what he will do in January. I think that the President needs to make a decision soon because this entire war is affecting so many people. First it’s affecting us, Iraq, and then the surrounding countries. I think that the president needs to make a decision. The other thing that we talked about in class was Dick Chainey’s company Haliburten. Haliburten is a business all about gas, and selling it. They are making a huge amount of money, but not for the U.S. it’s for the company and one of the main customers is the U.S. army which they are now selling gas to at about 22$ a gallon, where it already is. This is an odd situation seeing as how Dick Chainey is leading this company and is also the Vice-President, making him a questionable figure. But im pretty sure all of his credibilty went down the drain when he shot his “friend” in the face so who’s going to rely on him anyway? The final and worst issue of this war is that its been blinding us from how much debt we have accumulated over this time period of 4 years. 13 trillion dollars, and we add to it each day spending 1 billion dollars in Iraq. This is an immense amount of money and I believe that we would need to stop this war now to even have a chance at paying off this debt quickly, which, in all likelihood seems impossible. All of these issues, their center focal point, is the war, and thats what keeps them together. So in conclusion, Bush needs to make a decision fast and hopefully it will be one towards the direction of ending the war to help with these problems and focus on more pressing matters about other countries that need help, including ours.