And the other old rationale for war, helping to explain why our country has such a huge deficit? No way the Bush Administration has run our economy into the bottom of the barrel. Or is it "tank" these days?

Just the other day in responding to questions about the desirability of his proposed massive tax cuts for the nation's top 10% of taxpayers, Bush was observing that "Of course, we are running big deficits; we've been engaged in a major war!"

You know, he may be on to something! Maybe the current $800 billion deficit was generated by this $100 billion war and just maybe a new $800 million tax cut will solve the problem! Well, borrow your money today, folks. There may not be any left to borrow tomorrow.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble