Iraq war

I see the General Patreses( spelled wrong) said that he did not want a drop off of troops. The problem that I see it is simple - we can not afford going to war any more. We export all our jobs to India, etc and if there is not people working - how can wars such as we are going thru in Iraq be paid for. IOU's does not keep the economy. A so call volunteer army under the control of the President is not the answer. The people are not involved any longer. Yet the people has to pay for it. I once belonged to the Air Force Asoc and there was a push to by Boeing to buy more B'2s. I was at a dinner and told the people eating at the table with me that it was too expensive and we really could not affor the airplane. It would have been nice to buy more of these planes but we no longer can afford the military budget. These fancy airplanes really cost too much. Do we really have an military besides the 150 thousand troops that are in Iraq. These kids are good but can we afford the goals set for Iraq by the Present administration. Eventually all this has to be paid. Why think what happened to the Roman emplire when all the people became slaves and the professional miltitary ran the the Government. We need to get the troops out of Iraq before there is not a Military. We are living on ( I think that is right ) of the National Guard troops to furnish the troops but that was never the purpose of the Guard and when needed in The US- are not there. The fancy equipment costs so much then how is it paid. I can see the money spent for the Space program because there is gain for the people of the US. We gain in the Health industry and Science but even there we are pricing ourselves for the average person which means the American people can not progress. Not to deviate from the subject but industry is so far in Debt that they can not hire and train people. So what is going to happen to the good old USA. I am starting to ramble so better quit. Don