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[QUOTE=Ian]at least when clinton left office, we werent in debt or at war.[QUOTE]
we weren't in debt? the largest percentage expansion of goverment spending in US history and you think we weren't in debt?
you are correct to say we were not at war at the time bill clinton was in office, the down side was that while he was in office congress cut spending and clinton helped push through limitations of US information collection abroad. which means we had less data than we needed when the time came to respond to an attack on our citizens.
seems that some people used to think it was a good idea to learn what the bad people are doing by asking only nice people. the sad part to me is that these measures were carried by both parties. i guess no one wanted to get left out of the dumb.
every president in history has had their flaws, be it from bad decisions, bad information, or political pressures, they all **** something up. the only thing that has changed in the last 20-30 years is the willingness of the media to twist every word and concept into some unthinkable evil doing just to sell a news paper or two.
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