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Re: Blind Prophet
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Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:56:23 GMT
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Rarebit induced insomnia...
Scott, you know the answers already -- this is all rhetorical...
Shrub cannot find the dollars because he has doubled the annual national
deficit, approx. half of which will be needed to support the occupation. No one
really disputes that it is an occupation any longer, probably not even our
increasingly outraged U.S. troops. That’s right G.I. Joe, the Iraqis never
wanted you there in the first place and you can go home anytime now -- of
course, Shrub still needs you there to make his secure his oil money.
The oil-grab is a fait accompli. U.S. contractors have legal immunity for
almost any atrocity they commit in Iraq. Secret, unbid contracts for
Halliburton and subsidiary companies are speculated to be worth something like
$1.5 billion a month -- but right, no one in the White House profits from this
directly.
Shrub figures if he can make the stupid american people pay for his corporate
messes, he can just as easily make the rest of the world share the burden. Of
course, some other world leaders may wish to make him eat his rash words first;
perhaps pushing for a bigger piece of the take for themselves.
The well-being of the average american no longer matters to the multi-nationals
as the U.S. teeters on second-world status. Real wealth and power is
supra-national. Shrub himself probably cares even less. There’s a lot of
saliva dripping to crack China as a paying customer -- if they can accomplish
that the U.S. becomes wholly irrelevant. The Chinese themselves may have other
ideas; but they’ll probably buy at least Coke, Pepsi, and KFC.
From my own personal experience, the average Republican is fairly politically
ignorant. The bottom line is that they think Shrub is going to give them a big
tax cut -- and he will actually deliver, but only for his ultra-rich pals. The
rest of us have hocked ourselves into posterity to pay for Halliburton’s riches.
Brilliant!
What you want is something like a democratic society based upon capitalism, what
you get is serfdom in service to the wealthy elite. I have this funny feeling
that we shall look back at this moment in twenty years and see it as a pivotal
moment when something precious was finally squandered for good. No second
chances. In the main, we do not own, we owe!
“This is what you want..this is what you get...” -- PIL
-- Hop-Frog
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| I read (URL) this> the other day: The warning was plain. Iraq was a breeding ground of terror, an incubator for al-Qaida and a clear and present danger to "the civilised world". Tony Blair was wary of that argument, but George Bush made it the heart (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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