1.0 link 128420 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/wall-streetiraq-war-mashu_n_128420.html Surprisingly little separates what's happening to the financial market and what happened during the run-up to the Iraq War, many years ago. Both are cases of folly followed by bailout. Both involve the White House asking for broad powers, to be accorded by a docile Congress as quickly as possible without bothering to subject the proposal to any scrutiny. In both cases, bystanders get ground up in the gears of history whilst the people who got it wrong, time and...

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