I predict...

[globe@zipcon.com]

 off topic, but if you were a soothsayer would the exploding of the columbia 
over Texas make you think a war in Iraq is doomed?
 Carolyn
uoting Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>:

> Wayne,
> 
> I dont agree with you somewhere on some underlying issue.
> 
> You are surely right about the sordid motives behind 
> America's colonial wars in South America. however there 
> are other kinds of wars, not colonial wars where 
> US engaged for other reasons.
> 
> I refer to Viet Nam, Korea, WW II, Civil War where 
> commercial interests did NOT determine participation. 
> 
> WW I is a different case where US participation is 
> probably best explained as determined by US financial
> interests heavily invested in English and French bonds
> and loans which would have lost much value if Germany won.
> 
> I think your take on Bush is off the mark, he chose
> his camarilla (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove), not the other
> way around. He has mastered Reaganspeak and amurricans
> are putty in his hands. 9-11 has made him a war
> time president who get more latitude than peacetime
> presidents. so keep your seatbelt tightened!
> 
> Mike
> 
> CADAOBH@aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe if we are really, really lucky, the Bush Regime could talk some
> United
> > Fruit Company executives to come out of retirement (or their grave) to
> advise
> > us on how to "manage" a "real democracy".  As history has shown us,
> they did
> > such a great job in Central America and Cuba.  Oh.  Let us not forget
> our
> > Mafioso friends.  Put a few Dons and some Capos in the right spot and
> the
> > dollars will start to flow.  My heart is already beating faster......
> > 
> > wj
> 
>