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Originally posted by jyl
. . . - there's lots of peaceful schemes that have maybe a 50% chance of working. 50% is not good enough for something this serious.
Let's do it, get it over with, take the inevitable consequences, and move on. Hopefully I'll see George kicked out of office anyway. My bet is that the economy will do it, . . .
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Profound words, John.
Though, on the economy (being bad), I think it's a bit whiney.
WW2 the war effort was 40% of GNP. Today, the total defence cost comes out as 4% of GNP. Of that, 1/4 is devoted to war with Iraq. (1% GNP). What I'm getting at is, the economy would really suck if we had to spend 40% of GNP. It is a very good thing we are not taking a "do nothing" attitude. The cost of doing nothing could easly take us back to WW2 costs.