To: rich4eagle who wrote (246665 ) 4/10/2002 11:51:01 AM From: SilverFox77 Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670 8 years of prosperity and Peace? Any corrupt administration has the capability to alter statistics, and to also "put off" what must be done in order to keep that self-serving administration looking good, while at the same time keeping the ignorant even more ignorant. It's very simple to do - to simple minds... 8 years....At the cost of....what? Unless you've had your head in the sand (along with the previous administration), where was this "Peace" again? It was a matter of time before the ME escalated again - all of the signs were there. The signs are ALWAYS THERE. There will NEVER BE PEACE in the ME, there will never be a time where Peace reigns all around the globe - it is in our NATURE, the human animal, to seek out and destroy what we feel is rightfully ours - so that we can rebuild in our OWN IMAGE. We take what is not ours and we make it ours; when those who are uprooted try to retake their land, or their money, or their goods and services -- a little skirmish, a small whirling dervish of steel and dirt and blood and bone and tears, erupts and melds together as the final determination of that one, small, horrible, seemingly inhuman battle is won or lost. Then we begin all over again. The sooner you understand our nature, the sooner you will understand why there will never be total peace - at any one time, anywhere, on this Earth. Do you really believe that Americans have been at "PEACE" for the last 8 years? Our Countrymen (and women) only come together to fight a common enemy; when the battle is done, we judge each other, we fight each other, we degrade each other, we kill each other, we rape and torture each other, we steal from each other, ad infinitum... Which statistics do you have? I have the unabridged version. >>The greatest eight years of prosperity and PEACE in American History, you can slander all you want but the statistics are there<< Lorraine