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To: JohnM who wrote (91928)	4/10/2003 4:46:32 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If I'm right, this invasion is not about democracy but a critical first step in a larger plan to make the US feared around the world, to insure it is more powerful than any potential opponent or possible coalition of opponents, and to gain control over the central global energy resource of oil, more for political reasons than economic reasons. If you changed that to "this invasion is about more than democracy including a critical first step etc.", I would probably agree with you (though I think we dont really want "control" of oil, just a free-flow). None of that changes the fact that I think Bush sees a ME with some assurances of basic freedoms as the long-term solution to the current Arab rage. He has talked about freedom for individual Arabs unceasingly. It has been a central theme since 9/11....not just some recent justification for the war. It may turn out that it is impossible to impose "democracy" on a country, but I think we are going to attempt to do so. Slacker