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Your timeline missed the part about our ultimatum to Saddam being exclusively about the WMDs..which again haven't been found.

Budget: They say there isn't another way..except every time there is a hint of surplus, the answer is tax cuts. Wasn't Reagans economic boom supposed to cancel out his deficits? It didn't, and if the pattern is followed the current plan will ALWAYS lead to sky-high debt because it will never be paid down but it will be allowed to grow.

Drilling for oil does involve enviromental damage, even if some of it is accidental (the oil pipline leaks quite a bit, for example). And any building of roads to get -to- the oil is inherent disruptive because of something called edge effects (the interior of a forest has different climate than the outside, different exposure to predators, etc)

Most forests do NOT need to be logged in a convential sense. Mianly because the best trees for logging are the old, large ones. Which are also the most fire-resistant.

The fires in California? Forget about preventing them. That habitat burns to the ground pretty frequently..IIRC the oldest stand is something like a decade old.

Abortion:

There are not a lot of people struggling to adopt, sorry. Actually the system is flooded and over-loaded.

Gay Marriage:

You're against it for sematic reasons. Hmm. Or maybe its because civil unions DON'T EXIST, and if they are created they will be able to be discriminated against that way. Seperate but Equal ring a bell?