It was needed, remember what were were going through on the initial term of his presidency. On the other hand, cutting RE long term capital gains was stupid and only help fuel the speculators. Nothing like being able to hid up to $250,000 by just owning a house for 1 year and selling for more later. Sounds like a flippers mating song…
Starting a war: I go both ways on this. I am more upset as how the war was executed as opposed to the war itself. Typical group grope management wise. If you look into what Saddam was doing to his own people: It had to change. The “shock and awe” stuff was absolutely stupid. The real “shock and awe” would be the US troops waving “hi” behind that Baghdad TV reporter as he was stating that US troops were loosing their will to fight and were no where near the capital.
