justme: I’m curious as to where your “facts” came from.

Specifically, the statement that Dubya spent more money on killing people than any President since Nixon. I was under the impression that LBJ, a Democrat, holds that dubious distinction. The Vietnam War reached its peak under LBJ, and wartime spending (on a percentage of GNP/GDP basis) was the highest in our history, only exceeded by WWII.

Also, Clinton was far more interventionist than Dubya. Look at Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, etc. And his posturing over Iraq was more than mere saber rattling. He expended more munitions (and money) on Iraq than Bush I did. There are dozens of examples of not only his rhetoric regarding Iraqi regime change (like the Iraqi Liberation Act), but those of Sandy Berger, Albright, Hillary, etc. Amnesty International estimated that some 500,000 Iraqis died as a result of US sanctions and bombings during the Clinton Administration. Operation Desert Fox (approved by Clinton) dropped more raw tonnage of munitions on Iraq during the last two years of his administration than the US dropped on Germany during all of WWII.

I wouldn’t be tossing terms like contorted logic out there, when your particular logic appears to have no factual supports.