Why spend trillions against terrorists in Iraq?

Question

When millions of USA women suffer daily terror in the form of domestic violence?

http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/domestic-violence/domestic-violence-statistics.html

Answer 1

We're not spending trillions against terrorists in Iraq.

We're spending trillions babysitting the Iraq govt while it's in the middle of a civil war -- there are very few terrorists there, and very few of the terrorists there really care about the US other than the fact we're occupying their country against their will.

And yes -- we have huge problems at home that we're ignoring in our rampant fear-mongering -- because making people afraid keeps politicians in power -- and helping people comes a very poor second in getting votes.

Answer 2

This bring up an interesting problem for you libs. None of you can decide how much we've spent on Iraq.

You say trillions.

This site, in an incredibly convincing animation that just keeps rolling into higher and higher numbers (/sarcasm) says $460 trillion. Hmm, ok.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost-of-War-3.html

CBS says $350 billion. Just a little bit of a difference.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/16/ap/politics/mainD8NAKC0O5.shtml

This is kind of like the number of Iraqi civilians killed. The left throws out ridiculous numbers without any evidence or sources, or anything that indicates how they came to that number, and touts them as carved-in-stone truth. They don't even make sure their numbers agree with the next nut case group's numbers.

That's called propaganda. It is the tool of the intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. The real questions are why you feel the need to resort to propaganda and what exactly are you trying to accomplish if you have to use propaganda. The answers to those two questions are never good.

So lets say we take all that money we're spending on the War on Terror and we redirect it to domestic violence issues in this country. And we completely solve the problem, the US is a utopia, we're all smiling and holding hands and singing PC songs of joy.....and then a 747 piloted by a terrorists crashes into the center of that utopian love fest and kills every woman we rescued from daily terror, what have we accomplished?

Answer 3

well, if their woman beating husbands would just admit their homos and switch to men they'd feel better about pretending to be men their whole lives.
I hate punk asp woman beaters, They lose their man card for that wussy behavior ya know.
But the ones in the mid east cut off womans heads for speaking so we must end that evil to.

Answer 4

money invested abroad could have solved many domestic issues for the next 100 years.

Answer 5

Not to diminish how horrible DV is but, without a nation it would be the least of our worries. Do you really think the threat of radical Islam and the spread of the caliphate is just going to go away if we ignore it long enough?

Answer 6

Well, I do not think we should be in Iraq and I think there are a lot of better things that we can do with our money but I don't think we have spent "trillions" in Iraq.

Answer 7

Oh please, the cops won't even touch them. I've seen those so called battered women turn on the cops for arresting their man.

Answer 8

Abused women don't help fill the tanks on SUVs.

Answer 9

Because our country is run by idiots