Snow says death of Saddam sons helps economy

WASHINGTON (AFP)

The death of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's two sons helps the US economy by removing some uncertainty, Treasury Secretary John Snow said.

Snow was asked by a Fox Television reporter for his reaction to Wall Street's bounce after news of the deaths emerged.

"Well, I think anything that removes uncertainty about the course of progress in Iraq is positive, and that certainly removes some uncertainty," the US economic chief said.

"One more vestige, hopefully, of the Saddam regime is gone."

The aftermath of the Iraq war still weighed on US consumers' minds to some extent, Snow said. ---

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If our economy is so fragile as to depend on the deaths of Saddam's sons, then we are in deep
do-do!

These guys are completely nuts if they believe this crap. What a bunch of con men!

This is quite literally Voodoo Economics in a way never before seen in practice.

Oh, it was payment for a flight I did last month. Never mind.
:eyes:

So it was about economics huh Snowflake. I goddamn knew it. Too bad this time two years from now Snowflake you are gonna be out of a job and President Kucinich wont take pity on you after how you treated the the people of this country.

OH MY GOD! Another snowjob.

and that they want the public to go along with it. Yes, it caused an up day in the markets, but the markets are not the economy. Snow should go back and take Econ 101 again.

Perhaps they can "share" around Snow's job a little, get a different unemployed factory guy each day to do HIS job. Couldn't possibly do a worse job, probably do it better.

I give him another month or two before he "resigns"

I love it! Economist for a Day.

So what if his two sons were killed? it does not change anything... if anything, it will make matters worse....

this is the situation, we invaded a sovereign nation that was no threat to us, to take their resources by force. The leader of this country, that we used to do business with, but is now a "horrible man", had 2 sons.....we killed the two sons.....big fucking deal, and that is important because ?

WTF

....is good for America! We just whacked the sons of a former business associate of the BFEE. America stands tall! Yeehaw!

Kobe Bryant doesn't matter
Jessica Lynch doesn't matter

The world is going to hell, and the Rove press misdirects our attentions to worthless nonsense.

The lie is that Saddam, and his sons, were somehow a threat to the US. They were washed up and impotent, and we wasted billions taking over their oil, instead of attending to our own troubles.

That way consumers will be all shiny and happy all the time and spend spend spend!

He's calling it the "aftermath" of the war in Iraq and says, "there will continue to be some overhang there."

First untidiness and now overhang.

.... "it's only a flesh wound"

there are so many ways to package the BULLSHIT-- Now its OVERHANG.

I love it.

Any others to "weigh" in on the overhang?

. . . now that Uday and Qusay (according to a single-sourced CNN story) are dead.

Hear that hissing sound? It's rain - copious amounts of rain, falling across the parched states of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and western Nebraska, filling reservoirs, quenching forest fires, blessing crops and bringing the economy back to life in dying small towns across the western United States. That rain is falling because Uday and Qusay (according to a single-sourced CNN story) are dead.

Hear that hum? It's the sound of factories springing to life across this big, broad, happy land of ours, now that Uday and Qusay (according to a single-sourced CNN story) are dead.

Hear that jingling sound? It's the sound of ringing cash registers, now that happy farmers, upbeat IBM IT workers and optimistic, freshly recalled factory employees are merrily spending money, because Uday and Qusay (according to a single-sourced CNN story) are dead.

What a bunch of STINKING FUCKING HORSESHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't, IMO you could. That post was fuckin brilliant!

Which I suppose accounts for my high post count these days.

Thanks, though! ;-)

Hell if its good for business, lets roll! Get that Kim Chee guy in Korea. Dig up ol' Pol Pot and kill him again!!!

My 401(k) could really benefit

and the market went up?

This is freepin' :crazy::crazy::crazy:

death or murder.

I'm still not sure what these sons are charged with? I've heard Wolfie say alleged beat this guy, alleged womenizer, alledged didn't pay his taxes... but I've seen more fact that Bush went AWOL, Bush/Cheney knew about 9/11, Bush had been abusing alcohol and drugs since 15 years old, Bush's wife Laura killed another human but got off scott free, Bush is usning an Executive Order to hold Presidential documents 12 years to cover-up the deads done by Reagan and Bush, The anthrax killer is an NSA agent assigned to kill Democrats...

Is anyone thinking in the U.S.? If we can go kill anyone in the world without evidence those same people will feel double justified to come kill us without cause.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

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n/t

I'm gonna rush right out and buy that big screen tv ive been holding off on. give me a freagan break.

How many other people here need to go run out and buy something to drink? :crazy:

as a boost to the economy is repulsive and immoral to the extreme

but what can you expect when our way of life is based on killing people in the middle east for their oil

His reasoning powers are barely above autonomic.

Is this another rich child propped up with a trust fund and really concerned relatives?

Because this boy really doesn't know when it's raining.

Only a complete idiot can believe that because the 101 smoked sadam's sons that jobs will be created, taxes for education will flow and there will be a chicken in every pot!!!!


NOT, NEVER !!!!!!

So it was Uday's and Qusay's continued animation that was causing the deficit, unemployment and lousy stock market.

Damn. I knew it.

I missed out on the part about the effect of deaths of small time dictators sons on the American economy. Darn. No wonder I can't understand the world today. Does this mean that I'll be getting that cost of living increase I haven't seen in 3 years, and my job is secure, and the university won't be raising it's tuition AGAIN? Well, I didn't really expect it, but delighted to know that stocks are happy.
:where is my sarcasm smiley?:

(who in and of himself is scum) is "removed" the economy might just break out in roses??---ya' see, Snow, Georgie inspires no one and no one trusts his love affair with rich boys and everyone is afraid his rich boys will steal the money they invest in the market, and everyone feels they are going to get stuck with the bill while his rich buddies pay nothing. It's called "no confidence", Snow, my man...no confidence. As long as the cowpoke rides, the economy dies.

and said well i might add.

:eyes:

to seize the initiative on a variety of issues at once

another reason to suspect that the death of Saddam's sons may be false

the DNA doesn't match? The great depression, part 2?

Why, why is it that lightening bolts do not come down from the sky and smite these lying bastards?

and recently hit the airplanes of at least two of these lying bastards (JEB!(TM) and Blair), but if these were warnings, they have apparently had no effect

like the 90's when we git Saddam?
Drop more bombs, make more jobs.
YeeHah!

As if killing Saddam or Osama will somehow
dispirit the Baathists, or
make the Wahabbists convert to Christianity?

Seriously, what is it with these guys?
How arrogant can you be?

Apperantly, this arrogant.

helps India....of course, not if you move them to Botswana...
but if you lose them over China first....

the market goes up and unemployment goes down. When the wind blows from the east, the market goes down and unemployment goes up. This effect has been given a name - Blowjob.

The White House will be buying up so much in the coming months that the price is bound to go up.

Red herring is a definite buy.

The stock market is a casino influenced by consumer sentiment and opinion. It's a common tactic, even when nothing of note goes on in the world, to "talk up" the market merely by getting people to agree that better times are ahead for the economy. People would think it was good economic news that 70% of all plumbers ate Corn Flakes for breakfast if someone told them it was good news.

I bet it is as least as effective as a tax cut to the rich.

to see which ones had the biggest "bump" affect on the Dow Jones and Nasdaq.


Maybe Bush should announce ahead of time he will suspend elections in 04. THat will be a whole lot of uncertainty out of the way and we can hope for stock index back up over 10000. If they produce some DNA "evidence" that Osama has gone to meet Allah....could break into 11000 territory. YIPPEEEE.

Consider:

> He said the gun battle that killed them took place when 200 American troops,
> supported by attack helicopters, stormed a villa in Mosul following a tip-off.
(Quoted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3088991.stm)

Attack helicopters (several) = $$$$ ching!
HumVees (many) = $$$ ching!
RPGs (some) = $$$ ching!
Missile/s (one or more) = $$$ ching!
Bullets (shitloads) = $$ ching!
Troop training (~200) = $$$$ ching!
Press corps training (~500) = $ ching!
Bribe for tip-off (up to $15M) = $$$$ (handling fee) ching!

All of this money goes back into the American economy thus it is "good".

OK, most of the money came out of the pocket of American taxpayers ... so?
OK, all of the above goes into the pocket of Bush cronies ... so?

Did we tell a lie this time eh? Come on, did we? Bring 'em on!
Are you going to admit that we sometimes tell the truth now?
And if you agree we're telling the truth this time, how can you turn
around and accuse us of lying in the past?
Pah! You guys are anti-American to your rotten, doubting core!

(Sorry - appear to have been channelling Rove there for a minute ...)

Nihil

it will melt away in a second