Lest we forget, we just had eight years of "peace and prosperity". Eight years of seeing no evil, hearing no evil, of making love not war in the Oval Office... Never mind Iraq, North Korea, Al Qaeda, <i>stupid</i>... It is the economy, <i>stupid</i>! Remember? How do you like your "peace dividend", <i>stupid</i>? Do you blame the bear market on a war with Iraq? Do you secretly hope that if there were no war your MF's might one day regain their luster? Think again, <i>stupid</i>. We are in a bear market because America's status as a safe haven for investments, foreign <i>as well as</i> domestic, has been seriously undermined by 9/11. As we speak, money is leaving U.S. shores in droves, the dollar is plunging, and our standard of living is on the decline. The only way to restore our investment rating and reverse capital outflows is to fight and win a global war against terrorism. A war with Iraq may cause a lot of pain near term, but without one the stock market might never come back. In the long run, the war is bullish.