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WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."
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Hilarious. I mean, that's just...uncanny.
(This might also belong in the political forum...but that forum is full of weird people. Unlike this forum, which is full of sane, intelligent OMGAWD THE END IS NIGH...oh wait... nevermind.
The 90s and Bill Clinton are overrated. The prosperity was a mirage, based on easy access to credit and a tech bubble that had people insisting they had repealed the laws of gravity. Clinton, and the GOP congress, deregulated banking, with predictable results. I'd take the economy of the 1960s any day.
"You better believe we're going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration," said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. "Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?"
What seemed ham-fisted and humorous at the time seems immensely tragic in retrospect. About 6,000 Americans died in Afghanistan and Iraq, but upwards of 150,000 Iraqi and Afghani civilians died there.
In addition, it's amazing to think that the Cold War had ended only a bit over 9 years before this article! The promise of the Peace Dividend had only been partly realized under Clinton and now, because of the wars, that entire concept seems like a distant, hazy memory. Military spending forever and ever, amen.
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