Bush Gets a Clue. Economic modeling based on FDR

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Bush is being urged to give up to $10 billion (£5.1 billion) to Iraq as part of a New Deal that would create work for unemployed Iraqis, following the model of President Franklin D Roosevelt during the 1930s depression.

At the Pentagon, the joint chiefs of staff are insisting on reconstruction funds as part of a package of political and economic measures to accompany the armed forces. They fear the extra troops will be wasted and more lives lost if Bush relies purely on the military to pacify Iraq, according to sources close to General Peter Schoomaker, the army chief of staff.

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If Bush complies I'll consider it his personal admission that policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are infinitely superior to his own and that of Poppy, Ronnie Ray-Gun, Newt Fat Head Gingrich, Tom "Terminal Satyriasis" Delay, and that the continued implementation of right wing policy is understood by the right to be an assault on working and middle class people.