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Ant:
Given GWB winning I will make some predictions.  Now that there are no excuses, what happens in this country is clearly the responsibility of GWB and the Republicans.  In a way it is good Bush won, because this time there will be no way to escape reality. When reality hits, the responsibility lies with those who chose Bush.  Anyways here are my predictions for the next few years:

1.  The economy will grow slowly for a bit, then inflation will hit, interest rates will rise, the US dollar will continue to drop and we will stay in recession. 
2.  Foreign Investment into the U.S. will stay at record lows.  It's already gone from 300 billion per year to 30 billion per year.  It may not go lower, but it will not rise substantially. This will further strain our economy.
3.  The country will become further and more bitterly divided.
4.  1000 more American soldiers will die in Iraq.
5.  The U.S. will lose the support of the U.K.
6.  International terrorist incidents will continue to increase.  Terrorist recruitment will continue to increase.
7.  Anti-Americanism will continue to increase and spread. 
8.  The poverty rate, and the gap between rich and poor will continue to increase.
9. Iran and North Korea will become nuclear powers.
10.  Some moderate republicans will switch parties.
11.  GWB will eventually have stunningly low approval ratings.
11.  Republicans will become hated at home, and abroad.   

Other Possibilities:

1.  Oil will approach $100 per barrell; gas will approach $5 per gallon.
2.  The republican party will have their own civil war, and will return to their roots in 2008, and do their best to distance themselves from GWB. 

Obviously these all won't happen.  I could have been more cautious and omitted some to be more precise.  But we'll see if i'm right in 2 years maybe.

King Tech Quadafi:
I have doubts about your "other possibilities" section, but everything else seems fairly realistic under this administration

Doggystylin:
I wouldn't doubt it.

Ant:
BTW....

While its been mentioned ofter.  I don't expect a draft.

Also, I expect Bush to go 'soft' on terrorism.  He will pull out of Iraq under some pretense of 'victory' after we launch a massive attack on fallujah maybe.  After that, the U.S. media will stop covering it and it will end up like Afghan where we all pretend we won something.  Meanwhile more hostages are still being taken in Afghan, and Afghanistan is supplying 70% of the world's opium. 

Machiavelli:

--- Quote from: Ant on November 04, 2004, 06:59:07 PM ---
Also, I expect Bush to go 'soft' on terrorism.  He will pull out of Iraq under some pretense of 'victory' after we launch a massive attack on fallujah maybe.  After that, the U.S. media will stop covering it and it will end up like Afghan where we all pretend we won something. 
--- End quote ---

Pentagon officials have said that when they win the battle in Fallujah it wont be the end to the Iraq War. The propose of going into Fallujah is to take controll of the city and let local officials and government run the city so their could be elections in January.

Also, we did win something in Afghanistan. We took away the Taliban government, more then 75% of Al-Qaeda is gone, and they had successful elections.

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