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President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?
Brian Stretch writes " According to the National Review: 'When President Bush delivers a speech recognizing the centenary of heavier-than-air-powered flight December 17, it is expected that he will proffer a bold vision of renewed space flight, with at its center a return to the moon, perhaps even establishment of a permanent presence there. If he does, it will mean that he has decided the United States should once again become a space-faring nation.' Here's hoping. The article also includes talk of nuclear engines and using the moon as a testbed for going to Mars."
you mean the plans the Reps kept shooting down when Clinton proposed them at the start of both terms?
Saddam
Really, GBI did encourage the Kurds to rebel against their rightful, recoginzed govt...notice Turkey refused to deal with them too...even with US occupation of Iraq. The Chemical weapons came from US-USSR cold war policies of selling "surplus" arms to higest-bidder dictators for quick cash. We are directly to blame for their deaths just as much as Saddam is.
desert-style Vietnam situation
This is more-or-less how vietnam started. That conflict [never actually a declared war...hun?] started as a knee-jerk reaction to commies. It was supposed to be a "quick" clean up to keep the French "serfs" down. But, The commies correctly avoided direct confrontation of superior force and dragged the war for years by "camping" for the US troops we kept sending [sotra like right now]...It's only a matter of time before the whole region is openly against us...at that point the UN will simply turn it's back and let us take it!
more support with the war on terror
funny how people "support" you at the business end of a fleet of B-52's! Bush has openly theatened/extorted/bribed many countries into compliance...that's nearly the same as support. They WILL knife us in the back for this when the time is right!
Regan's defense spending also lead to the expectations of the wild profits that created the careless dot com boom/bust cycle, and set the stage for the business practices that Enron enbraced. As far as helping the economy, I don't really see how? We're still loosing GOOD jobs in most of the country at an alarming rate. Remember unemployment only counts those who GET it, not who it's run out for...the numbers are really MUCH higher, and the new jobs aren't as good as the old ones. He's only created larger, and more Orwellian government...the very kind Regan tried to put down in Cold war Russia. I was a kid when Regan was president, in high school when the "wall" fell...Bush has copied every, single thing I was told by the govt was WRONG with the commies in all but name. This is a very, very dark time for the US!