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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (60039)	2/5/2005 2:38:09 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Only the coupe grace is military. Coupe of Grace is the mercy shoot given to a moribund (or a rotten empire if you prefer)condemned man shot by a fire squad. I didn't say <overtaken militarily.> When the empire ran out of ideas or options it tries to use of the force as weapon of last resource. An empire such as the US, having problems at home, creates a conflcit elsewhere to diver public opinion. Fighting an enemy, real or imaginary, gathers the attention and focus the population. If 911 didn't happen. It needed to be invented. Corporate scandals were all the rage and quicly forgotten once there was an enemy elsewhere. Now is social security reform. Finding an Iran somehwre comes really handy.