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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (12401)	4/5/2004 1:07:48 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

You're bored that Coulter is a lipstick lesbian? You are pretty dickless.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (12401)	4/5/2004 1:57:26 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Good morning AS. Imagine if there were oil in Haiti Some people are actually surprised that the Bush administration twiddled its thumbs while the democratically elected president of a neighboring republic was run out of office by armed thugs. The explanation is tragically simple: Haiti hasn't got anything we want. Because of massive erosion, precious little grows there -- coffee, sugar, some mango trees. Underground are modest quantities of copper, bauxite and marble, but nothing we can't get in abundance elsewhere. Nothing worth deploying a 100,000 troops over. Like oil. If only Haiti were sitting on half as much petroleum as Iraq, the United States would have shown a much keener interest in what was happening there. From Congress you would have heard some stirring speeches about our moral duty to help an ally under siege from outlaws. Why, Vice President Dick Cheney himself would have lumbered out of his bunker and made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows, warning of the grave global peril if Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown by paramilitary goons, killers and drug smugglers. Before you could say ''Halliburton stock options,'' a U.S. armada would have been steaming toward Port-au-Prince, while Cheney's pals in the private sector would have been ramping up to repair and secure the Haitian oil derricks. contd at ... miami.com