Ok, Shane, post people here hate Bush already, this is mostly a satire thread.
However I don't hate the guy (at least not with a passion), so I'd like to reply to you.
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When Clinton was in (you may not like him fact is he did a damn fine job) the Euro was under the dollar by 40 cents. NOW the Euro beats us by 60 cents or more.
In 1998, the Euro was worth $1.16. By the time Clinton left it indeed was down, to about $0.90. As of today, it's $1.21. You've exaggerated it quite a bit. (The British pound is worth about $1.60, but that's always been quite higher.)
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Syria buys there oil for $2-$3 a barrel.
USA buys there oil for $33-$35+ a barrel.
You dont think that pisses someone off??
Yeah, no shit it does. But Syria has its own oil I think, so that's not too much of an argument.
Not to mention, the Middle East has hated the US for decades now. After all, we've done horrible and evil things to them for so long. :rolleyes:
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Anyone that has a brain ought to know that Iraq hasnt had major weapons in years. If you knew their history they have been shattered by war for years.
Clinton might've fried them in 1998, but we have no way of knowing, really. But Saddam always wanted them again, and never hid that fact. (Recently he just used machine guns and other little things to kill a smaller number.) Or, there's that theory that Saddam's people told him that he actually had them when he really didn't, so they could avoid torture for not getting them fast enough. That would certainly be something....
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Unemployment is the highest in years...
Remember Clinton's term when you could walk into a job and demand your wage rate??
The current unemployment rate is 5.9%. Guess what? It was
the same in 1996. My guess is, there's just a lot of pessimism these days, with the media reporting lots of bad shit and all, whereas in 1996, everyone was optimistic about everything.
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I didnt vote for him and wont again.
Just to be a bitter nitpicker
, that sentence doesn't make sense. You say you didn't, and then use the word "again" to imply that you did. I'm just a grammar nazi
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Let Hilary take the spot.
She's running in 2008, that's the Clinton plan. It also means keeping Bush in.
There's a rumor that she'll be going against Jeb Bush in '08...that would be
very entertaining.
