Reply #30: What would unemployment be without 9/11 and Iraq?

[Snellius]

Bu**sh** keeps insisting that the recession is largely due to the war on terrorism, but without the huge increase in military spending and new war-related jobs, these unemployment figures would be disasterous. These trends, as Bush himself admits, were well in process BEFORE 9/11. In the past, many historians contend that what brought America out of the Great Depression was really World War II. Bush's only job's creation program was Iraq.