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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Sultan, I disagree re the Dow, etc. -- they are good market indicators, if only because they are perceived as such -- i.e. encourage investment. Dow 10K was, for me, a major indicator of a bounce-back.
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that same logic would imply the dow is a bad market indicator when it goes down because it discourages investment.
logical fallacy aside, are you suggesting that encouraging investment is a de facto good thing? this echoes of the trickle down economic policies that led to the 1987 stock market "correction"
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Sultan, I disagree re capturing Saddam being a cakewalk. He was very protected, and capturing someone with dozens of dozens of hideouts in an unfriendly country is never easy. Toppling the regime was easy, but catching the man was not, nor could it ever have been.
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sorry, i was unclear. it's not the capturing of saddam that i was suggesting was stealing candy from a baby, but rather the whole iraq campaign in the first place. in that sense, we're in agreement.
the capturing of saddam is a decoration on a cake that should never have been baked, and as such, is only of relevance as a propaganda device. it's like showing off pictures of the crying baby after you stolen the candy from him and shouting "look what i did!"