Re: mixed emotions??

- he heard on the radio that more americans have been killed by illegal aliens in our country than all the soldiers killed in Iraq-

It probably depends on the timeframe. The war is approaching 4 years of age. Does he mean that in these 4 years illegal aliens have killed more people then the war casualties? I highly doubt it, but in a sense it is an irrelevent question. Illegal immigration is wrong no matter what the crime statistics. We need to secure the borders and decide on how many legal immigrants will be allowed into the country and then set up the proper procedure to do it. We need to raise the minimum wage to allow more legal residents to perform some of the tasks that the illegals do. Some industries will undoubtably be hurt and may need short time assistance, but over time I think people will be willing to pay a little more for their produce if it is supporting working american families. Bush can't be let off the hook for anything. In terms of Iraq it was he, and he alone, who screwed up. I don't think I was alone before the war started saying that toppling Saddam would be easy, but installing a democratic government friedly to the West in an Arab country would be impossible. Arabs in the middle east are brought up to distrust and hate the West. I told several of my friends who used to be in the military this and all they said was that the USA would go in and roll over everything in its path because we are the USA and have the best Army in the world. Many, many people in this country knew it would deteriorate into guerilla warfare. Bush and Cheney have no one but themselves to blame for this - they are lacking many things, including common sense. Bush also does not want to secure the borders. It is amazing how he always says that we are fighting the terrorists on the streets of Baghdad so we don't have to do it on the streets of America. Yet the immigration bill he favors is an absolute joke - an amnesty bill that does nothing to secure the borders. He just cares about the cheap labor supply that benefits one of his number one special interests - big business.