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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (252292)	5/1/2002 3:52:44 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

RE: "The off-year rule of thumb usually doesn't apply in wartime." >>> Er, is that exception to the general rule only for DECLARED wars, or for any kind of conflict? >>> If the exception includes un-declared (but open-ended) conflicts, such as the present indefinite duration 'War on Terrorism', shouldn't it also have applied during the 40-odd years of the Cold War? ... another open-ended conflict whose end could not have been predicted throughout most of it's term. >>> If this is all so, then there isn't much left of the 'off-election' rule at all... it being more observed in the breach than in fact.