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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve
The negative repercussions from a massive terrorist attack far outweigh any perceived political gain.
Get your heads screwed on people.
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besides the political gain, there's also a financial gain: people go along with almost anything when they're frightened (like torture for instance) ->
9/11 made it possible for the Bush administration to double the national debt in 6 years (it took 200+ years to get there to the pre-Bush debt), where did all that money go? For a lot of Bush supporters there's been a major windfall because of the spending Bush and the Republicans have implemented
war profiteering for instance has gone unchecked
for the Bushies: look up the Truman Committee, even during WO II was profiteering prosecuted