S Green wrote:
"Doug Carter" wrote in message
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Conservatives object to excessive government spending,
especially when it is used to force social engineering.

and the money being spent in Iraq is NOT social engineering then?

The Iraq war is part of a long belated response to world
wide terrorism.

Your inference that establishing conditions that give
peoples a chance to escape from dictatorships is 'social
engineering' is valid and I stand corrected.

I should have said that "conservatives object to excessive
government spending, especially when it is used to
increase dependence on welfare or inappropriately create
monopolies that displace free enterprise."