As An American

As an American living in America I have seen absolutely no personal benefit to the war in Iraq. As a matter of fact, gassing up my car has tripled since 2002 which is around the time the government sent U.S. troops over there.

Now I'm no economic/military/international politics expert in any sense of the phrase, but since most of our petroleum products seem to come from that part of the world it would seem they jacked up the prices as a result of the military's presence.

On top of that it's costing my tax dollars in the billions every month and I'm thinking that with all this "benefit" we should be getting that my gallon of gas should be down to about $0.25 a gallon. Since our government makes decisions based on the benefit of our country you'd think that, wouldn't you?

In the mean time U.S. troops are getting shot at and blown up, not getting paid nearly what they're deserved, living there with a virtual target painted on their backs, and we're all paying $3.05/gallon of gas.