cost of u.s. military involvement now in libya. with all due respect to congressman ron paul, you need to know that dick luger is no ron paul. dick luger is not like the guy who s against ever war. dick luger has not been alone in raising questions about the cost in particular about the intervention in libya and whether or not that was a good idea. our past two presidential elections have largely been about democrats criticizing wars that republicans have defended. it is starting to look like it s not going to be that way this time around. joining us now is former republican national committee chairman, michael steele. mr. steele, it is great to see you again. great to be back with you. do you think that 2012 might be different in terms of war politics compared to the last time? i do. i think you re going to see it play out as an undercurrent in the overall debate about the cost to the american people of everything, not just the war, but the economy and gas prices. all of that s
majority of americans 51% want to cut military spending as a way to decrease the deficit. and if you think congress won t put up a fight, listen to the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, republican richard luger, out of indiana. it s a strange time in which almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficits, outrageous problems, and yet at the same time all of this passes which is a very expensive operation even in a limited way. which is a very expensive operation. now we have been in afghanistan for ten years. we ve been in iraq, this is year number eight. you mean to tell me mr. luger who has been in washington what, 30 years, all of a sudden he s concerned about the money that we re spending on a little pid ly operation of a no fly zone in
leading, now they are saying oh, he s gone out too far. we get that. what about kucinich and the democrats. if you don t have dennis kucinich look, webb is a special case luger? with luger i disagree. the whole intention of the way this thing went down we didn t declare war. he weather a participant. that s part of why you had the president proceed with his trip you re saying it s all politics. and i can see the motivation from the republican side to say listen, what kind of a guy is thisç leader. but still unclear to me why webb, luger, kucinich and the democrats something else. we don t have a good history in this part of the world. we really don t. as a matter of fact, the american public doesn t like susan back to the point why he
luger has stood tall on a range of domestic issues. he and a number of senators were being challenged at home. so there s no one really in the foreign policy circles and among his colleagues who are saying that in this case that this is political. luger has always been an upstanding and free thinking guy on foreign policy questions, he said those things in an interview with me as well yesterday. so did jim web, so are some democrats. so the president is facing what white house officials acknowledge is unexpectedly strong criticism from the hill. well, and andrea, dick luger is in indiana because he has stood shoulder to shoulder with the president, especially on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, dick luger did the responsible thing, what he believed to be the
and if you think congress won t put up a fight, listen to the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, republican richard luger, out of indiana. it s a strange time in which almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficits, outrageous problems, and yet at the same time all of this passes which is a very expensive operation even in a limited way. which is a very expensive operation. now we have been in afghanistan for ten years. we ve been in iraq, this is year number eight. you mean to tell me mr. luger who has been in washington what, 30 years, all of a sudden he s concerned about the money that we re spending on a little pid ly operation of a no fly zone in libya? don t you think the republicans are losing credibility when it comes to war numbers? all of a sudden we can spend a