[Vicious_2003]

They have not benifited other than 2 countries are no longer big threats

Lets not mention that afganistan was not an immanent threat to the U.S. They had no weapons of mass destruction..and no plans to attack the U.S. Hmm...a threat you say...I disagree.

We now have a much better understanding of Space. We put people in space and we now know we can. We put people on the moon and we now know we can. We landed on mars and we now know we can. Plus we have the satellites in orbit, which greatly help our military. Ultimately what the research does is it takes one step further to something even better then the last. If we do not spend the money now on the research then it will only be longer before that something is achieved. In 500 years people won’t just wake up and say, "Hey! We can do some serious space travel now!" Unless there has been some serious research done.

And was all that worth it ?. We payed what 10 trillion dollars over time and the lives of numerous astronauts just to find out that we CAN indeed land on the moon and maybe even get to mars. Yeah...thats certainly worth all that..I think not. As for the sattelites..those are indeed useful..so why not just diverert funds form all the other projects. I could do without a few worthless pics of red rocks on mars..couldnt you ?

But if you look back into history the Spanish-American war is very similar to the war on Iraq

hehe...leave it to a history buff to compare wars. Cant say im following you there so I conceed