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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Gordon Cruikshank who wrote (10640)10/9/2001 6:52:56 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 74559
 
>>So where did the money come from if not from imported oil?<<

Is there anyone on earth who does not use imported oil for something, or in the form of something? Is everyone on earth to blame for Osama bin Laden?

Are people in New Zealand somehow not part of the Great Circle of Being?

Quick pass through google, and I see that New Zealand imports carpet backing from Saudi Arabia.

med.govt.nz

BTW, a lot of "the money" in Afghanistan comes from opium. Maybe we should blame Osama bin Laden on heroin junkies.

But I prefer my own explanation. Revolutions are not started by the dispossessed, the wretched of the earth. They are started by the second sons and the sons of second wives - the ones who do not inherit the earth. Every day the desire for power, the anger, the feeling of injustice, seethes within them. Bin Laden was rejected by his own family for a reason - and that's what really is driving him.

Where is the righteous anger against Saddam Hussein, who uses oil money to build new palaces and more weapons, rather than feeding the children of Iraq? The Kurds, who get a portion of the money, live in relative plenty, because they are willing to spend it on food and medical care and other benevolent purposes. Everyone who cries out about the poor starving Iraqi children should blame Saddam - not us. It's propaganda.

And everyone who is afraid of anthrax should remember who makes it and other weapons of mass destruction - Saddam.
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