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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (182144)2/19/2006 4:28:40 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Actually, I believe that the idea of unfettered capitalism as being an 'efficient' and 'effective' allocator of resources has been bashed in the head and sent toppling to the ground. The attempt by this administration to privatize everything has developed into:

Iraq
Custer Battles
KBR
Bechtel
Iraq
Iraq
Katrina
Medicare

etc.

It doesn't work. People don't work that way. The world doesn't work that way. This is why we have Iraq.

This is also why we have the Medicare bill which refuses to let the government negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for better prices. That's because unfettered lobbying by phamaceutical companies won out over rationality, reason, efficiency and plain old decency.

Who wishes to live in a world dominated by violence, greed, self-absorption and venality? Who?

I don't think Bush cares about his father. He doesn't listen to him, he insults him in public and he does completely the opposite for what his father did.

If anything, Bush went into Iraq to humiliate Poppy. He would finish off Saddam. He would get reelected.

Yes I believe that Saddam would be happy to get back in control, crack down on the Shiites and resume being a pawn of the west. At this point, I suspect that's what the WH would like as well if they could pull it off.
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