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To: LindyBill who wrote (44084)	5/13/2004 6:12:52 PM
From: carranza2	of 793939

They would never think of saying, "Let's close this prison immediately and reopen it in a month as the Abu Ghraib Technical College for Computer Training — with all the equipment donated by Dell, H.P. and Microsoft." Why didn't the administration ever use 9/11 as a spur to launch a Manhattan project for energy independence and conservation, so we could break out of our addiction to crude oil, slowly disengage from this region and speak truth to fundamentalist regimes, such as Saudi Arabia? (Addicts never tell the truth to their pushers Well, why not put Friedman's idea into play now. It's a damned good one. Raze AG, get major US corporations and individuals to contribute to an educational institution; the Iraqis could end up with a terrific facility on their hands. Iraqis are not stupid and uneducated. To the contrary , they had at one point one of the most educated and literate populations in the ME. The base is there. The Manhattan project analogy is a bit sauced up, IMO. No one really conceives of how truly enormous the oil business really is and how pitiful the routes to alternative energy sources have proved to be.

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