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Date Posted: 21:45:22 03/10/03 Mon
Author: eom
Author Host/IP: 216-80-74-169.d.enteract.com / 216.80.74.169
Subject: I just had this conversation a couple weeks ago w/a friend of mine
In reply to: Khronos 's message, "Re: The article makes many good points, but the message is tainted by sensationalistic aspects." on 19:01:21 03/10/03 Mon

didn't we have a thread about this once?

I think people feel that war's good for the economy because we all live in the shadow of wwII.
I think wwII was great for the economy, despite the tremendous destruction --- but, it was an exception.
all the points made in that article are certainly true.

the fact is, we've basically been getting all the positive benefits from war ever since wwII because we've basically been at war, only w/o the fighting.
we've maintained the spending, but w/o the destruction.
there are better ways we could've used that money, but it certainly wasn't holding us back.

once we conq...free iraq, we need to employ the slant oil drilling company to suck the oil out from under the saudis.

ps

war was great for the romans, too, but that was a whole different deal.

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Re: war is good -- DammitBoy!, 21:54:45 03/10/03 Mon
- Re: war is good -- eom, 22:48:31 03/10/03 Mon
  - Re: war is good -- DammitBoy!, 05:31:56 03/11/03 Tue
    - Maybe it was a "bat" mitzvah? n/t -- Khronos, 07:03:59 03/11/03 Tue
      - Re: Maybe it was a "bat" mitzvah? -- Hagbard, 18:48:10 03/11/03 Tue
        Re: established that eom is male? -- DammitBoy!, 04:13:28 03/12/03 Wed
        You can never be too sure about these things... -- Khronos, 09:43:52 03/12/03 Wed

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