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Aristus

(66,325 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 12:11 PM Oct 2013

AFAIC, the Iraq War would have been much less popular in the initial stages if B*sh had just done

the right thing, and instituted a tax to pay for it, like he should have done.

We wouldn't have been there as long, and we wouldn't be quite so deep in debt as a result.

And if he had brought back the draft, we might never have gone at all.

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