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To: Tommaso who wrote (23263)	12/12/2004 1:37:56 PM
From: glenn_a	Respond to of 110194

>>>When did Nigeria become a state of the US? I did not realize Nigerians were Americans... I think it was in 1999>>> Pretty close I'd say (although of course, American has been projecting serious global geopolitical power since the end of WWII). With the Project for a New American Century and U.S. policy to project its power to secure global energy resources, a lot of peoples became "de facto" extensions of the U.S. imperium, and certainly West Africa (and Nigeria in particular) would be included in this group. Of course, as proxy clients Nigerians (like Egyptians, Iraqis, Afghanis, Venezuelans, etc.) don't actually get to vote on the outcome of U.S. elections, but they increasingly get to vote as to the rubber-stamping of proxy regimes. Then again, it's debatable if all American citizens really get to vote to elect their representatives either (or should I say, get to have their vote counted). Oops, hope I didn't extend to far into the realm of the political. ;) Regards, Glenn