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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
no, but SOME of those ideals are ours as well, and so we will most likely join.
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Libertarians and Bush conservatives are as different as liberals and libertarians, dk. The invasion of Iraq runs completely counter to libertarian ideology, as does wiretapping, torture, fear mongering, executive power grabbing... basically everything Bush ever did. Bush was a big government conservative, a military expansionist conservative, and the only tax breaks we really saw under him went to the super-dooper rich. I never saw them and neither did you.
A libertarian in power in the last 8 years wouldn't have gone expansionist, he or she would have gone xenophobic. Our borders would have been sealed completely, but the spending would have been a pittance compared to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Executive power wouldn't have grown at all, though I suspect there would have been better investigations as to how 9/11 happened and how to prevent it in the future. Taxes would have been cut across the board, along with spending. There's no way torture or wiretapping would have happened, in fact it's likely some of the agencies involved would have been shut down completely as they're what many libertarians consider to be redundant. By 2006 or 2007, there would have been an presidential assassination and a more moderate VP would become president until Obama beats Paul in November of 2008.
No, libertarians and conservatives are quite different.