Argentina's former president: Bush claimed ‘the best way to revitalize the economy is war’

Argentina’s former president: Bush once claimed, ‘the best way to revitalize the economy is war’

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 -- 2:10 pm



http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0529/argentinas-president-bush-claimed-the-revitalize-economy-war/

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone is by no means done exploring the administration of George W. Bush.

While producing new material for his upcoming documentary "South of the Border," which explores the history of political and social movements in Latin America, Stone sat down to interview former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner.

The subject inevitably turned to George W. Bush, the subject of Stone's creative nonfiction feature "W". In front of a film crew, Kirchner confided to Stone that the former U.S. president once directly told him, "The best way to revitalize the economy is war."

"We had a discussion in Monterrey. I said that a solution for the problems right now, I told Bush, is a Marshall Plan," he claimed to have suggested. "And he got angry. He said the Marshall Plan is a crazy idea of the Democrats. He said the best way to revitalize the economy is war, and that the United States has grown stronger with war."

Asked to clarify, Kirchner added: "He said that. Those were his exact words."