What does buying a mini-van have to do with the war in Iraq?

Question

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Clifton, Va.: Warren, my wife and I are considering a minivan in the near future. I like the idea of the Mazda5--truly a "mini" van--but saw that it's basically a Mazda3 with more seats and more metal. How woefully underpowered is the 5?

Warren Brown: Ah, Clifton,what do you mean by "underpowered"? For many people, the 153-hp offered by the Mazda5 is quite enough. For others, it isn't. Again, you can go to hell or to jail in a 153-hp vehicle just as fast as you can get to either one of those places in something with more horsepower. My thing is this: Horsepower should be taxed. The more you get, the more you pay. That seems fair to me in a world where only a few of us, mostly in military uniform, are paying dearly to secure oil for the horsepower the rest of us want. Or, is it that you accept the myth that we're fighting for "freedom" in Iraq?

WTH!

Answer 1

Since mini-vans have room for bigger bombs in them than cars, every mini-van bought in America is one less terrorists can use to murder American soldiers in Iraq.
But we must be careful since after the Fort Dix plot was uncovered we have verified that terrorists are among us here, so instead of gun control we should have mini-van control. At least that would be Constitutional since there in no Constitutional right to mini-vans like there is for guns.

Answer 2

This guys thinks that those who exercise their right to splurge on car features that waste oil needlessly when we are at war and gas prices are high; are doing so simply for their own selfish benefit. Since he also believes that the war in Iraq is more about oil than freedom - something that tens of millions of Americans also believe - he implies that the spoiled rich are purchasing their toys with the blood of American soldiers who are mainly from the middle, working and poor classes. He has a point. If you want to support the troops, why wouldn't you forego cars that don't get optimum gas mileage?

Not agreeing with his argument doesn't necessarily make you a fool, but dismissing it out of hand because you haven't the courage to consider it and develop an intellgent argument against it, most certainly does make you a fool.

Answer 3

On the theory that the War in Iraq is about getting it's oil (if you wanted Iraqi oil, you could've gotten a lot more of it a lot cheaper under the corrupt oil-for-food progam, but whatever).

Higher 'horsepower' vehicles use more gas, gas is refined from oil, oil comes from the middle east. The fact that the middle east is full of religious fantatics who think terrorism is a way to cut in line to paradise can't have anything to do with international politics. Ergo, driving a mini van causes war in the middle east.

Of course, gasoline is already taxed per gallon, so those who use more of it already pay more tax. What he was demanding /already exists/.

Answer 4

I like the Mazda5 too.

If we weren't so addicted to oil, we wouldn't have to be so embroiled in the Middle East, and terrorists from that region wouldn't care about us, and we wouldn't have to go fight them. Got it?

Answer 5

Tax the horse power. Sure.

Answer 6

I don't know but the mazda 6 sports sedan is better. zoom zoom zoom.