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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (9164)7/13/2004 12:52:25 PM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
RE Bush getting us into Iraq, I keep thinking of the lines from Sam Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes":

See nations sink, by darling schemes oppressed,
When Vengeance listens to the fool's request.

Our nation wanted vengeance for 9/11, and Bush wanted to finish his daddy's war.

I had never heard that he could not get into Texas law school. But as a friend of mine said recently, who was herself a straight-A graduate of U-Texas, and is editor of a law journal: "He knows how to read people." And as long as he is not compelled to answer questions, he can just keep pigheadedly making statements that evade the issues.

I was just re-reading Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of the American People." His summary of the period 1925-1929 could almost stand as a description of the most recent years; his view is that the Great Depression occurred because economic conditions were rotten and dishonest in the 1920s.
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