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To: TideGlider who wrote (513740)	12/20/2003 11:25:02 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Tide--whether it's Homeland Security's duct tape, building airplanes or making bombs or keeping the oil needed for machinery, America's military behavior is mostly a GOPwinger thing. What the Democrats might get from the military industrial media complex is a pittance, crumbs at best, in comparison. What about my other issues like education, deregulation and the cost of medicine? Also, do you think it was a decision among Democrats to make building and controlling prisons a company that trades on the stock market? Who were those BOD members anyway? I don't know, but it'd be interesting to find out.

To: TideGlider who wrote (513740)	12/21/2003 3:22:59 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

I hear about enron and yet Dems were getting enron money too. Equal opportunity bribery I'd call it. Except for the fact that contributions by Enron and its officers ran about 4:1 in favor of the Republicans. So, you make a nice debating point, but a very weak one. ****** I seem to remember lots of talk of Lady Bird Johnson owning munitions interest on a large scale as her husband increase the shooting and bombing 100 fold. Maybe that was bullshit then, maybe not. I've read that Lady Bird (as a proxy owner for LBJ) owned about a 40% equity position in Brown & Root in the mid 1960s. Clearly Johnson was guilty of war profiteering. There can be no question about it. It was the most shameful act of self-dealing of his entire career, as far as I'm concerned.