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To: Dan B. who wrote (13836)	11/17/2004 9:08:29 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

The list of declassified and suspected CIA operations in other countries is so long that I'd have to write a book to thoroughly cover the entire topic. We've been propping up dictators and tough guys for years to get our objectives met. We were proping up, indeed giving the full support of the president, to Saddam Husayn in the 80's. Between overt and covert military support to juntas, oppressive governments, "terrorists" (we called them freedom fighters when they are on our side), as well as economic pressure in every corner of the globe, the US has left its imperial/neo-colonial fingerprints on a massive swath of the earth's surface. Virtually all wars have economic underpinnings to them; not all wars have involved the firing of guns - but most have. In the last 100 years while other colonial powers were in retreat, the US has been on the advance.

To: Dan B. who wrote (13836)	11/17/2004 9:24:56 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

"ITs the economy, stupid, is all one needs to know." Correct, not all one needs to know, one also need to know how funny a two-party-system is to manipulate, although it takes both a lot of cash for the media as well as 96 post-WW2 wars which were not wars, said the congress and the constitution. Plus Gerrymandering, but that is kind of obvious, has always been and has served USA so well. (just like the two-party-system, how else could segratation have been even attacked)