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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: matthew (Hijacked) who wrote (3866)	3/27/2003 12:35:45 PM
From: zonder	Respond to of 21614

It may be something as simple as dyslexia. Or severed connections between two hemispheres of the brain. Carl Sagan's "Dragons of Eden" explains the split-brain syndrome pretty well - the guy reads something with one eye and can say what it is, but if he tries to write it, another word comes out. They ask what you just wrote,

To: matthew (Hijacked) who wrote (3866)	3/27/2003 12:37:07 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 21614

Mary Novakovich Wednesday March 26, 2003 The Guardian The War for Oil 7.30pm, BBC2 Those carrying placards saying "no blood for oil" can pick up some reasoned arguments to back up their stance, thanks to this measured Money Programme report. Yes, it's true that in 1998 Donald Rumsfeld advocated invading Iraq to protect the oil supplies. After all, someone has to help the Americans to carry on going through 10m barrels of oil every day. And Vice-President Dick Cheney wrote a report concluding that "energy security should be a priority of US foreign policy". But, as it turns out, the fight for Saddam Hussein's oil wells would give the global oil industry only a bit of breathing space and would do nothing to stop its permanent decline. Within the next 10 to 20 years, global production (including the Middle East) will fall and that will mean fundamental lifestyle changes. guardian.co.uk