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To: RealMuLan who wrote (93945)	4/16/2003 6:25:18 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) of 281500

<How can someone put such a high priority on oil fields while pay NO attention to those priceless mankind treasures?> We are materialists, who value tangible things, things with market value, over culture and ideas. Also, we are a nation that thinks history is meaningless. Americans care about the present, and the future, not the past. Historical arguments bore us. Part of our national culture is the Belief that we can control the present and future, without regard to the past. The priorities, in this order, are: 1. winning 2. winning at low cost (= few U.S. soldiers dead) 3. grab oil fields, with intact infrastructure 4. bully neighbors into submission 5. install U.S.-friendly government in Iraq . . . . 95. democracy 96. obey international law 97. protect cultural artifacts

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