Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests 300,000 new jobs last month..

Hip Hip Hooray! My fiance got a part time job paying $8.50 an hour with no benefits this week too. She'd been making $35K/yr until 7/02.

So the economy may limp back into employment just in time for Iraq to blow up in Bush's face. Anyone wanna place bets on whether the ayatollahs in Iraq will really allow the US sponsored interim constitution to stick as it is written now? Our election does not happen until months after sovereignty is to be passed to the Iraqis. Maybe our rebounding economy will help pay for our keeping forces over there for a full four more years, like members of the senate foreign relations committee co-chaired by Sen. Lugar (R-IN) had surmised. If that sovereignty change happens around the end of June, lets see how the Dow Jones responds to the ayatollahs around July through October, and then we can discuss our vibrant, healthy economy.

Is Condi Rice still focusing on missle defense? (OK, that last one's a cheap shot. That was her focus on 9/10/01. After all, she did change her focus the next day to Iraq. Must have been because of all those Iraqi hijackers.)

And while you flame me, quit the "But Clinton messed up on terrorism too" chant. Clinton's not running in this election packaging himself as a hero in the war on terrorism. (But if you MUST dwell on the past, then how about discussing how Saddam got the gas he used on the Kurds... during the Reagan administration? What was Rumsfeld's job back then?)

Anyway, our show of force did not exactly turn the tide in Vietnam, but here we are again, needing to "win the peace," to "win the hearts and minds." Do you really do that by turning the Middle East into a sea of glass?

Enjoy your jobs and contemplate how many MORE enemies we have NOW, swearing to kill us all, than we did one year ago. Between 9/11/01 and 3/03, we had allies newly eager to share intelligence on terrorists. Now we have former allies who are convinced we're liars on a deluded power trip. Thanks George, I feel safer already.