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Someone in the US admin is really clever. They got US taxpayers to fund the US army to go in and wreck Iraq using materials supplied by companies owned by members of said admin. Then they get the US taxpayers to fund yet more companies owned by members of the admin to go in and fix it up. A good example of the flood up economic effect as opposed to the trickle down one the propaganda usually promotes. reminds me of Milo Mindbender in "Catch 22".

Ellis wrote:

"This could happen under the supervision of NEUTRAL International Inspectors."

How the hell do we find them? Perhaps a Muslim force supplied by countries other than immediate neighbors. This would mean Indonesia and Nigeria would provide most troops. But the countries that wrecked Iraq should surely bear the cost of repair. Nice little money-earner for Indonesia and Nigeria and other Muslim countries.

redewenur asks:
"How can educated, worldly leaders of nations be so naive?"

Educated? Certainly you are not referring to my President. The man that said all of the following:

"at some point we may be the only ones left. That's OK with me. We are America."

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...Mars is somewhat the
same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have
seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.
If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
...Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 8/11/94

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
...Governor George W. Bush, Jr.

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
...Governor George W. Bush, Jr. to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/93

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."


Well that and the moronic imbecility of our leader(s).

DA. I think you are forgetting that your leader is an illusion. He is a hologram. Watch out for the real leaders, the ones maintaining the hologram.

Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and Tweedledumber.

This guy couldn't hit the ground if he fell off a ladder.

Ha! Hilarious! Incredible, but believable, if you know what I mean. If you found those quotes in a book, I'd enjoy reading it - could be a good partner for my copy of 'Fahrenheit 9/11'.

I hope the electorate has learned its lesson well. To vote for a candidate whose campaign attire included a bomber-jacket was inviting this kind of trouble. Appearances are not always deceptive. Here's wishing you (and the rest of the world) a better next U.S. president; and one who can distinguish science from mythology.

I keep quotes from American politicians for my amusement.

Here are a few other geniuses we have put into office:

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very
very low crime rate."
~ former mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."
~ former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle


Wait until next year ... the electorate has learned much ... they've learned Brittany Spears doesn't alway wear her panties and who won the Super Bowl. No doubt that will help them make better decisions.

$700 million could do a lot of fixing up!

I am in awe---did Quayle really say that? How do they find them? Did he go to Harvard or Yale too?

Redewenur wrote:

"Here's wishing you (and the rest of the world) a better next U.S. president; and one who can distinguish science from mythology."

I second that.

Here are a few more of wish we American's are justifiably proud:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/
http://www.realchange.org/quayle.htm

You can find his bio, such as it is, at Wikipedia.

Here's wishing the next US President isn't an embarrassment and a kleptocratic moron.

I've just read an interesting take on the US admin finally talking to Iran and Syria. The US will ensure the talks fail, blame the appropriate countries, invade Iran and take over the oil anyway. Watch this space.

That's 'billion' of course. Just your typo, I know.

TNZ wrote:
"The US will ensure the talks fail, blame the appropriate countries, invade Iran and take over the oil anyway."

I've no doubt Bush and Cheney would like to.

I am beginning to have doubts as to whether the military would do so. There are reasons to believe that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may have sabotaged the claim that Iran was sending in weapons.

I am no in favor of an insubordinate military. But then I'm not in favor of a personal kleptocracy either.

Thanks Rede---You know, I think I thought it was millions--- billions is OBSCENE!!!

$1.00 is obscene. The only difference is the grossness of the obscenity.