Were we supposed to sit on our hands?

I'm glad that our President has time to appear on late night talk shows while the Middle East burns, aren't you?  Anyways, the President was on Letterman the other night and I watched it and something that he said got me asking some questions.  Letterman told the President that at the RNC they had a debt clock and it was counting up really fast and he asks the President, "What is that?"  The President responds with talking about a surplus during the Clinton years.  He then proceeds to talk about how we launched two wars, which we paid for by using a credit card.  Let's stop right there.  Mr. President, were we supposed to just sit back like nothing happened after those planes hit the twin towers?  You hear Democrats all the time talking about two unjustified wars that the United States have forced upon others.  Really, unjustified.  I mean we were attacked and nearly 3,000 American citizens were killed an audacious and evil attack, and we were supposed to do nothing.  See Mr. President, President Bush didn't apologize to Al-Qaeda for America being the greatest nation on earth.  No, he said we are going to find the people responsible for this and take them out.  So, while the wars weren't great for the spending problem(any war never is), I think it was justified to go after the people who tried, and succeeded, to kill Americans.

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