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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (262261)	6/9/2002 1:52:03 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Hi Dave, Re: Where do you people get these ideas about US world take-over? Who wants that? From little hints like this: usembassy-israel.org.il Currently, the U.S. maintains over 2,000 military installations on foreign soil. Since last September, the list has grown as we've sent advisors and established forward bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Georgia, Yemen, Columbia, Azerbaijan, possibly Armenia, possibly Venezuela, etc. We can't know for sure how many countries have had the U.S. military barnacle attached, it's policy to keep this secret. Sources: eurasianet.org zmag.org aaainc.org

To: ManyMoose who wrote (262261)	6/9/2002 2:46:24 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Calm? Not in the least. I'm expecting some more "unexpected" attacks, just as predicted by Cheney et al. The US is fomenting peaceful cultural change throughout the world by maintaining prosperity domestically, and ability to maintain a rule of law that favors US business. We are also fomenting violent change, in "response" to 9/11, but in fact these plans for invasion, say, of Afghanistan, were in place before 9/11. Plans for invasion of dozens of other oil-bearing locations have no doubt been in place for years. The brew I'm drinking gives me pause to reflect on the fact, at least I think it's a fact, that the US can pretty much buy whatever it wants, and doesn't need a military takevoer. That's overkill, to say the least. It is also counterproductive, and causes "blowback" when covert, and "lifelong terrorism" when overt. Just one example, Russia's budget is $30billion, 1/67th of the US budget. And other countries are even smaller.