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Originally posted by Spanky
I am sorry that I assumed that you thought Bush was being duplicitous when he did not ad the Iraq war estimates to his budget. It is good to know that you think his handling of the Bush War expenditures was above board even though you think the total budget estimates were duplicitous.
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I think there were political motivations for excluding predictable costs of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan from certain budget documents. I'm not sure I would go so far as to call it duplicitous.
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People on this board make such references all the time. But I am glad you agree that Bush is a very savy person.
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I have said before that Bush is not dumb, and that his political adversaries do themselves a disservice by misunderestimating him.
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Actually you have that backwards. I explained in my post why it is absurd to think that Bush intentionally underestimated the deficit - it has happened quite consistently etc. Instead of addressing my points you made irrelevent points and personal attacks.
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I didn't say he underestimated anything. I said that the government has released inflated projections, such that when actual numbers come in, they look good by comparison. And I don't love the personal attacks, but if you are going to condescend to everyone, that's what you'll get.
