Reply #4: It is now technically speaking 2006, but more like 1966 or 67, IMHO [View All]

We're just three years in, like from '64 to '67, when the country was just waking up to what the M/I complex was really trying to do. In '63 they'd just whacked JFK in order to get us into their damn war (as LBJ put it) and by '68, even Johnson knew the cause was over. Cronkite just relayed the bad news.

Today the R's are finally coming out of their fog, and even William F. Buckley, Jr, has written about the current fiasco being what it is.

It Didn't Work
http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200602241451.asp

""One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed""

Also, as far as the economy is concerned, Pat Buchanan's Suicide By Free Trade article's last paragraph should tell you who should be running the economy

Suicide by free trade
www.amconmag.com/2004/2004_04_12/buchanan.html

""Indeed, if the issue is jobs, Republicans ought to be thrown out. For not only are they not creating them, they have no idea how to stop exporting them. In their hearts, some of them think it a good thing. They are like the doctors of old who sincerely believed bleeding the patient was the way to get rid of the disease because that is what their textbooks and wise men told them""