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Edited on Thu Sep-25-08 08:06 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter
I'm not talking about lives lost, just the mental process involved.
If markets react badly to McCain's stunt (just baddly... a few percent) he will have willfully destroyed more money around the world than would have ever been spent on the bailout. And for nothing at all except a petulant, spastic desire to throw an imaginary punch.
Bush may have thought, in his petty hostile mind, that there was some good reason to invade Iraq. I don't know what he thinks.
But McCain has no reason for doing this. It's not about principle and it's not even good politics.
Would anyone spook the entire global economy to look tough or distract from the fact he picked a dim-wit as VP? Apparently so!
He just felt like it. I keep visualizing the white house meeting as a bitter senile man standing up at a diner party and jerking off.
The only *campaign* event to top it that comes to mind is Nixon secretly asking North Vietnam to keep the war going in 1968.
At least Nixon's ploy was politically useful. Does McCain think people will respect him from costing them money? That doesn't sound like an American voter to me.
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