If that's the case, well, at least Obama's "bad intel" on the Olympics didn't cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars like Bush's bad intel that led us to war with Iraq.
So by that (admittedly narrow) standard, Obama is definitely an improvement.
But in using the IOC decision to criticize Obama, some conservatives are definitely showing that they would criticize Obama for anything, including but not limited to the weak sunspot cycle and lost socks in the dryer.
Obama's bad intel trumps anything Bush did. We could have paid for all of our wars we have ever been in with the amount "spent" in the Obama stimulus package by itself and that is just the beginning of the Obama to do list. So if you are comparing the cost of Bush's bad intel to Obama's bad intel, Obama's intel is far worse and far more costly.
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Sounds to me like an excuse to bash Obama to me.
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Sounds to me like an excuse to bash Obama to me.
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Obama's bad intel trumps anything Bush did. We could have paid for all of our wars we have ever been in with the amount "spent" in the Obama stimulus package by itself and that is just the beginning of the Obama to do list. So if you are comparing the cost of Bush's bad intel to Obama's bad intel, Obama's intel is far worse and far more costly.
Let's not confuse the stimulus package with the bank bailouts James. The cost of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would not pay for all the wars the US has fought.
Let's not confuse the stimulus package with the bank bailouts James. The cost of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would not pay for all the wars the US has fought.
Actually it could
World War I cost $23 billion
World War II cost $288 Billion
Vietnam was $111 Billion
Korean war 67 Billion
It would also probably be able to pay for the War of 1812 and the Spanish American War.;
__________________ "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." -- Colin Powell
"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another." -- Richard Nixon
Actually it could
World War I cost $23 billion
World War II cost $288 Billion
Vietnam was $111 Billion
Korean war 67 Billion
It would also probably be able to pay for the War of 1812 and the Spanish American War.;
For starters, you left out some very expensive wars, namely Afghanistan, Iraq (1 and 2), the US Civil War and the Revolutionary war.
More importantly you did not put the cost in todays dollars next to each of those wars. Obama's stimulus act is not in 1940's dollars but in 2009 dollars. Do the exchange, and you will see that I am right.
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