I said, "Those of you who would vote to continue costly foreign wars against guerrilla forces are voting for LCG." I didn't specify which wars. Though in the ones of which you speak, we're trading essential liberty for temporary & illusory security, IMO. Something I believe to be rather unwise.
If you truly believe that our government has not grown in both wasteful girth & controlling power because of Iraqistan, then I'm not even sure how to continue the discussion.
I don't believe the prosecution of the wars themselves has caused that, some of the other measures here domestically might be in that category.
The only argument to me about a war is its necessity. WWII caused the government to grow, yet we still had to fight that war.
Government will use any excuse to grow and give itself more power, that's the nature of government. That's why you don't want to use it for very much. You only unleash it when it becomes absolutely necessary. Otherwise it leashes and unleashes you, which is where we are now.
Yet, to me, we still had to fight those wars.