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

To: sandintoes who wrote (670478)	1/31/2005 4:34:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Funny... I would have thought that our Civil War was the costliest war in our history --- both in treasure and lives --- when measured as percent of GNP & population, NOT the Revolutionary War. I could be wrong on that point though, our population was so much smaller then.

To: sandintoes who wrote (670478)	1/31/2005 10:31:37 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Brilliant! "...in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial’s really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way." - Jimmy Carter Independence 1776 - United States of America Per capita GDP - $37,800 Independence 1867 - Canada Per capita GDP - $29,700 Independence 1901 - Australia Per capita GDP - $28,900 Independence 1947 - India Per capita GDP - $ 2,900 indexmundi.com