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Originally posted by chopper816
one last note, the economy here always improves after a war, so if someone starts talking about the cost, remember, that is a political issue and the money will come back in the economy after the war, it always does.
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hmm.. Great Depression?
I hate to disagree with a brother... but Bush and more specifically his administration (except maybe Powell) is very pro-hawk. There has been a consistent drive for hostile action (well even more hostile than bombing Iraq about once a week for ten years), since Bush came to office.... remember pre 9/11 there was arguements made in the administration for action against Saddam. If anything 9/11 derailed these plans slightly.... what most people disagree with is the fact that the US acting without UN support. Even more bothersome was/is the attitude of the President's Administration and the US media... all this crap about France and Germany.... blah, blah, blah.... maybe if Rumsfeld(?) wasn't such a jackass in his comments, and maybe if the US media hadn't jumped on every chance to deride or insult those people who's view disagreed with Bush or the US. The action that the US is pushing through with is not making any support or friends abroad....
For example following the speach, at this pub I was in, some guy got up on his chair and started to sing "America the Beautiful" while waving a little American flag. First the pub (of about 300 people) went dead silent; maybe we couldn't believe someone was actually doing this..... then the bottles and pint glasses went flying along with the insults.... if it wasn't for the fact that me and some of my old buddies from the army (Canadian) grabbed him and dragged him out, he probably would have been severely injured. The worst part was that he thought we did this because we were pro-American... we just didn't want to see him killed.... to tell the truth I think Smitty's bottle was the first to actually hit him.