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Krugman and his fellow ideologues aren’t admitting that it’s the war, not just Bush, which is popular with Americans. Pre-war CNN polls showed that more than 60 percent of Americans supported military intervention in Iraq, on par with Bush’s approval ratings. The roughly equal percentages make sense. Bush can serve his political ambitions only by catering to the electorate; if the war did indeed serve Bush’s personal aspirations, it must also have been a war that most Americans believed was just. In our democracy, ambition can?...
...current pre-war climate, the exhibit may elicit diverse, even contrary responses. For some, the painting and lithographs may once again create a militaristic climate. For others, the exhibit may animate visions of the horrors of war and contribute to anti-war sentiments...
After an influx of veterans receded, enrollment in the new class dropped. And by the end of the Class’ four-year stay the undergraduate population had normalized to pre-war lows...
...everyone your full attention. But the president must put his shoulder into the debate over an economic stimulus package or nothing is going to get done. That's the opinion of members of Congress anyway, who are only getting farther away from compromise. Their debate has an almost quaint pre-war partisan bitterness to it: Democrats say Republican tax cuts are for the rich, and Republicans claim Democratic spending plans are inefficient and wasteful. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is saying no bill is better than a bad bill, and House Republican leaders are cranking up the invective, blaming...
...party for China in the guise of a trade summit, was now dominated by the issue of terror, and the President's hosts were not going to let him get a paper cut on their watch - which is why we were getting so much attention. For Bush, the pre-war purpose of the visit was a multi- country stature-building jaunt for a president who didn't have many stamps in his visa. Now, he was arriving as the head of a global anti- terror alliance, taking his show on the road for the first time since the attacks...