Unemployment Rate Lowest in 5 1/2 Years [BUMPED UP FROM 2006]

wnelson said
its the economy, stupid.
dont let charlie melancon and his cronies tell you it is iraq or whatever
the elephant in the room is a robust and powerful economy.

it doesnt matter to me locally as bobby j will be reelected with 90% or so (no one would even run against him i suspect) but for my friends and saints fans everywhere, remember..... all politics is evil, carl rove IS satan... but is john kerry or hillary clinton any better? or even worse!?!? so remember, it was the republican congress in charge during the dot com boom, it was the republican congress which passed the tax cuts which has fueled this economy and it is the republican congress that has the balls to win the war on terror.

thanks, now i will exit the soap box

...And it is the Republican Congress who is spending like a drunken sailor. More money borrowed in the Bush years than all previous years combined. Might this "pump priming" have a little to do with propping up the economy????

And I'm not sure they know how to "win" a war on terror. If they did they would focus on the terrorists, rather than occupuying Iraq and fueling a nationalist insurgency. How many times does it take before a lesson is learned? The Brits already did this in the 1920s and had to declare victory and leave.

Look at N. Ireland. How many decades there and the Brits could not "win" the war on terror? Things didn't get better until they elected to "appease" the terrorists with political negotiations.

Conventional armies can not defeat a well rooted popular insurgency. That is a clear cut lesson of history. So I don't know what "victory" will look like as long as we have 150,000 troops in country.

For every jihadi "terrorist" you kill you are creating umpteen new ones, plus fueling insurgents who are more nationalist and secular and would be shooting at us whether Bin Laden was around or not.

There is no "war on terror" in Iraq. That is a canard.

Iraq is a chosen war of "nation building." Saddam could have capitualted to U.S. demands across the board and we were going in no matter what.