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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (116714)	3/5/2008 11:53:19 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Actually Bush Sr. was smart about how to fight a war for oil. Get the Saudis to pay for it. GW Bush was stupid and betrayed the American People by making us pay for everything, costing us trillions just so Exxon, Chevron and Shell could get their deals for the Iraqi oilfields, which they finally got today. That was 90% of the reason Bush-Cheney invaded, to get those oilfields. The other 10% was war profiteering for Halliburton, macho posturing of draft-dodgers and political schemes of Rove remembering GHW Bush's 90% approval ratings when he went after Saddam's army. The invasion had nothing at all to do with 9-11, terrorism or WMD. All that was pure deliberate lies. Which is why Bush-Cheney are guilty of treason.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (116714)	3/6/2008 10:10:06 AM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 173976

Actually it was Bush's failure to reduce tax's that caused him to lose the election, not the cost of the Persian war. The tax issue caused Republicans to stay at home. Just as they will for McCain.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (116714)	3/6/2008 10:23:30 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Clinton was the beneficiary of the reduction of the huge deficits that Reagan built up. Once again, Presidents do not spend, Congress does. Why is that such a hard concept for you to grasp? Once again, Clinton had a GOP Congress which, for a time, put a lid on runaway government spending. Ms Hilly, in case you don't remember, tried (with Billy's blessing) to ram a hugely expensive, budget busting national health scheme down the country's throat. Thanks to some sanity exemplified by Next and his GOP cohorts, that disaster went nowhere. Reagan, in case you don't remember, had a solidly Democrat Congress which had no desire to exercise fiscal restraint. Take off your partisan blinders and try to look at history objectively. Clinton wasn't a saint and Reagan wasn't the devil. Or the reverse. Presidents propose budgets but Congress accepts, rejects, or modifies them as it sees fit..