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t money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said. Former President George W. Bush's administration cited its belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government held weapons of mass destruction to justify the decision to go to war. U.S. and allied forces later found that such stockpiles did not

ere were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had no links to al Qaeda. The U.S. was gr

e no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had no links to al Qaeda. The U.S. was greeted no

because taxes are too low. US corporate taxes is the lowest in the industrialized world — corporate taxes are expected to raise just 1.3 percent of G.D.P. this year, about a third of what it was in the 1950s. American taxes (all levels) are 26.9% of the country's GDP in comparison to Canada 32.2%, Ger

make a country's transformation self-sustaining, unless the people themselves want to take charge of the process. In Iraq, George W. Bush removed Saddam Hussein, who had EFTA_R1_00441189 EFTA01964441 been governing that country vertically, from the top-down, with an iron fist. Bush tried to create the co

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A_R1_00441191 EFTA01964443 answered, "At least $200 a barrel." But it's half that — for a reason: "We now use 60 percent less energy per unit of G.D.P. than we did in 1973," explained the energy economist Philip Verleger. "If the trend continues, we will use half the energy per unit of G.D.P. in 20

o be excrescences of the Great Satan. But Saddam Hussein's brutal and initially successful assault on Ira

ionaries initially junked the shah's expensive armory and closed down his nuclear program, deeming both to be excrescences of the Great Satan. But Saddam Hussein's brutal and initially successful assault on Iran soon brought them back to the real world. The ayatollahs turned to those they condemned as irrevoc

ite U.S. protests, Israel remained Iran's most reliable arms supplier for much of the 1980s -- the time when the West was supporting In the 1980s, Saddam's chemical warfare against Iranians, mostly overlooked by Western countries, convinced the Iranians that they had to build a nuclear deterrent. Ove

, collapse. But Ireland, which has done everything the austerity crowd wanted, is in terrible shape too, with unemployment near 15 percent and real G.D.P. down by double digits. Portugal and Spain are in similarly dire straits. And austerity in a slump doesn't just inflict vast suffering. There is gr

utube.corn/watch?v=smEqnnkIfYs Tomorrow, Barrack Hussein Obama will be sworn in for a second term as Presi

In contrast, the gross domestic product grew at a rate of 2.7 percent over this period, with tax revenues increasing at about the same rate as the G.D.P. Spending on infrastructure and government services, excluding defense, has kept pace with gross domestic product growth. (Spending on infrastructur

be like if the nation were losing 30,000 lives each year to Islamist terrorism. Do you think for one minute that a young man named, say, Abdullah or Hussein — or EFTA00657822 Tsarnaev — would be able to go to a gun show and buy a semiautomatic AR-15 knockoff with a 30- round clip, no questions asked? W

nding we'll turn into Greece any day now. After all, haven't economists proved that economic growth collapses once public debt exceeds 90 percent of G.D.P.? Well, the famous red line on debt, it turns out, was an artifact of dubious statistics, reinforced by bad arithmetic. And America isn't and can't