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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21872)	11/13/2004 7:19:24 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81903

cogent comment re: why Brazil? What does she have that Russia Wants? Just their wheat, orange juice and soybeans, et al...all carefully nurtured by Cargill over the last 30 years. Brazil's ideal crop growing weather is the flipside of the "Bread Basket of the World's" growing season/weather. Me thinks the ruskies are hungry, and so are their peeps, and their peeps oxen, and donkeys, and equine and bovine, and... Cargill removed bazillion of rainforest flora to create a foodstuffs space "down there." Why? Primarily to break the back of the decent prices US farmers were holding Cargill up for inside the US, such as "beans in the teens" and "$5 wheat." This was all done back when I was a commodity rep for a Chicago firm some 30 years ago. Carry on, Doc Jis thot I'd toss in a piece of your think tank puzzle...now that Santi has quit stealing Sinclair's material and presenting it as his own thoughts<g>

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21872)	11/13/2004 4:24:13 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81903

> I think they are losing this one (2) ... And I'm not the only one who thinks so. rollingstone.com >>The nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders. We spoke with a group of generals and admirals that included a former supreme Allied commander and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up. ----------- Our allies thought we were crazy to be in Vietnam. We could have the same thing happen this time in Iraq. If we walk away, we are still the number-one superpower in the world. There will be turmoil in Iraq, and how that will affect our oil supply, I don't know. But the question to ask is: Is what we are achieving in Iraq worth what we're paying? Weighing the good against the bad, we have got to get out.<<