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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: truedog who wrote (6109)	9/27/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Lisa	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Pezz, It is very difficult to formulate an opinion about the political events of an era in which you never lived:-) LIsa

To: truedog who wrote (6109)	9/27/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<One way to jump start an economy is to gear up for war.>> That's a pretty cynical comment that millions of American boys would be sent to war for the purpose of lifting an economy ...... Sadly it is also a realistic one. << quote of Admiral Yamamoto became known; " I fear we have awakened a sleeping tiger>> My Dad thought that the "sleeping tiger" which was awakened [and in his opinion the "Tiger" that won the war not only in the pacific but in the European theater as well ] was the industrial power of the American economy. The auto and aircraft giants [ and others ]of America responded by switching over to a war time footing and began turning out war machinery at a pace and quality that the world had never before seen.Of course they were not subject to bombing.... pez