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To: TimF who wrote (260994)	4/8/2008 4:26:04 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Look to the histories of the finances behind the great wars. Consider how a puny island country of shop keepers could defeat the french empire and then go on to span the globe.....the answer lies in finance. No money no arms, no fleet ,no access to markets. And then there is the cost of fielding an army for an indefinite period of time. Only the power of american finance has allowed us to not succeed in iraq for so long...ng

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