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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 03:53 PM
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A faith-based war and a faith-based economy ?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/opinion/01FRIE.html

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It should be clear to all by now that what we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues. This group believes that what matters in politics and economics are conviction and will — not facts, social science or history.

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rogerashton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 04:01 PM
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1. And you can pray for a job.
Edited on Sun Feb-01-04 04:02 PM by rogerashton
You'll sure get more help from God than from the Republicans.

On edit -- title typo
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mn9driver Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 04:10 PM
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2. Friedman is still a jerk in my book. He's a big war fan.
As evidenced most lately by this snip from the editorial:
"...Personally, I don't believe the Bush team will pay a long-term political price for its faith-based intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Too many Americans, including me, believe in their guts that removing Saddam was the right thing to do, even if the W.M.D. intel was wrong."
He's a smart guy, but he has a huge blindspot about this.

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