Whoa howdy, don't it make you proud to be an American? We have the honor to be living under an administration that has brought us the biggest expansion of government spending and debt in history. THE BIGGEST. We all know bigger is better!

We have a man presiding over the nation who says he believes deeply in conservative principles. He is so conservative he has encouraged the biggest expansion of government spending and debt in history. Don't it make your conservative brown eyes blue?

For example one piece of legislation proposed by the Bush administration and elaborated by Congress, one that provided drugs for old people at young people's expense, added $6 trillion to the fiscal gap. Bush could not summon up the courage to veto it.

In fact, the pusillanimous “war president” couldn't manage to veto even a single of one of the moronic and expensive acts of Congress to cross his desk.

Instead, he cut taxes on current voters...a move that will get him votes but also will add trillions to the bill the next generation has to pay. But hey! We raised these kids and it's their obligation to pay us back, right?

But hey again. This is a moral and compassionate administration in tune with the religious base of the country. Our churches watch the dead bodies pile up around them, but few clergymen seem to notice. They go along to get along. Any criticism might be taken as a lack of faith, meanwhile more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Between 11,000 and 14,000 Iraqi civilians - innocent men, women and children - have been offed.

But after all, Saddam no longer has his torture chambers or is forcing his will on the innocent. We are told this is a fair trade off. Don't it make you proud to be an American to be rid of Saddam. Not bin-Laden, or any of the Saudi's who had anything to do with 9-11, but a former ally we supplied with guns, bio-weapons, and money to fight against that axis of evil member Iran.

Don't know Whether killing these people in Iraq makes the world safer, or more dangerous, but I do know it makes a lot of the right wing types happy and makes them feel protected. Can't say that it actually makes me feel safer though. Do you feel safer when civilians suffer "collateral damage" when we chase insurgents around Iraq?

Is the adventure in Iraq really making your derriere more secure? Has anything of value been accomplished by the US attack and occupation of Iraq? Has this attack made the future of my children safer or more secure, or have they just been saddled with a debt their children will have to bear?

And I certainly don't claim to be an expert on Christianity. But I could have sworn there was some interdiction against killing people in there somewhere.

The American fundamentalist clergy- like our politicians, economists and opinion mongers - have a strange kind of faith.

Publius