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To: Rock_nj who wrote (6799)	6/2/2004 3:47:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Re: I do think our "leaders" use christianity and religion to further some bastardly agendas. But, I think religion is just the vehicle used to further those agendas, not an end in itself. After all, how religious are our "leaders" anyway? True but it's beside the point... Leaders are cynical fellows, to be sure, but what of their constituencies? The relevant question is, After all, how religious is the American people? Clue: Message 19930461 Now, I agree with you that the Judeo-Protestant creed is instrumentalized by televangelists and politicians alike but that doesn't turn it into an irrelevant, dummy variable to understand the US's course of action... After all, the Israeli people has not settled in Palestine, fought against the natives and suffered retaliatory terrorism just to "manipulate" US opinion and hypocritically pander to its Biblical fantasies! Both American Jesus freaks and Zionist Jews are SERIOUS about their religious beliefs (). Pro-life terrorists who won't flinch from bombing and shooting pro-choice doctors are serious... Demonstrators who harass gays and lesbians who want to marry with shouts of "Turn to Jesus" are serious... Televangelist Robertson who urges Israelis not to relinquish a single square foot of land to barbaric Palestinians is serious... Gus () Message 20103220

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6799)	6/2/2004 4:11:11 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

So, it all boils down to oil, eh? But who cares about Nigeria? Hopes lift on Nigeria peace pledge Wednesday, June 2, 2004 Posted: 1:44 AM EDT (0544 GMT) WARRI, Nigeria (AP) -- Rival ethnic militants in Nigeria's troubled oil-rich southern delta have pledged peace after the killings of two American oil workers prompted a government crackdown on a yearlong spree of bloodletting. [...] The escalating violence in the Niger Delta, where the bulk of Nigeria's oil is drilled, has forced multinational firms to shut some wells and pipeline facilities and turn their attention offshore in recent years. Nigeria is the world's seventh-largest oil exporter and the fifth-largest supplier to the United States. For weeks last year, the crisis cut the country's production by nearly one-quarter, and production has yet to fully return to normal this year. Both ethnic groups also accused oil firms of fanning the violence with "divide-and-rule tactics," including payoffs to militants from one side to protect oil sites from the other. Oil company officials privately admit being forced to pay "security fees" to local thugs in order to prevent hostage-takings, sabotage and other attacks. Although the peace promise offered new hope, oil multinationals ChevronTexaco and Royal Dutch/Shell said it was too soon to return to swampland wells and pipeline facilities. "We do welcome any peace initiatives and we support any efforts made," said Don Boham, spokesman for Shell's Nigerian subsidiary. "Yet it is too early to see what the results are." cnn.com