Are we beating ourselves? Sep 08, 2010 | 1080 views | 0 0
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"What's the matter, pal? You look down in the dumps."  "I can't
help it. I've been wondering lately -- could Osama bin Laden be
winning?"  "Winning? Are you nuts! After he and his conspirators
attacked us on 9/11, he had to flee to a cave."   "We rolled
right through the place, too!"   "Saddam flouted the rules. He
had it coming!"   "Things are better there now than when Saddam
was running the joint!"  "Aside from war, America was already in
recession before 9/11, thanks in part to the bursting of the
tech-stock bubble. After 9/11, a worried Federal Reserve began a
series of interest-rate cuts to pump 'easy money' into the
economy."  "Desperate times call for desperate actions!"
"You're saying bin Laden indirectly contributed to the housing
bust and the economic meltdown that followed?"  "By 2008, the
American public was sick of Republicans, who had majorities in
the House and Senate. They