BUSH: THE US HAS USED WARS TO GROW THE ECONOMY

President George W. Bush argued in 2004 that the best way to grow the U.S. economy was by waging war, according to former Argentine Prime Minister Néstor Kirchner.

Kirchner, in a meeting with Bush, suggested that the United States replicate the successful nation-building strategy it implemented at the end of World War II.

"And he stood up from his chair and got angry. He told me, 'A Marshall plan! No! That's a crazy idea from the Democrats. What needs to be done here, and the best way to revitalize the economy is -- the United States has grown based on wars,' he told me. That's what he told me," Kirchner recounted.

Bush added, said Kirchner, that "all the economic growth that the U.S. had had, had been based on the different wars it had waged."

The film is co-written by Tariq Ali, a British intellectual, and Mark Weisbrot of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. The film opens in theaters June 25th.


...except democrats have a much better record at starting wars: James Polk-Mexican, Wilson-WWI, FDR-WWII, Truman-Korean, Kennedy/Johnson-Vietnam, Carter-Afghanistan, Obama-AFPAK. Republicans: McKinnley-Spanish American, Bush I-Gulf I, Bush II-Afghanistan/Gulf II. That's 7 to 2 in favor of the Dems. And Obama is still in office and Iran looms.