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To: Suma who wrote (16429)	4/11/2005 8:30:14 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 20773

It appears DeLay is going to bring the bankruptcy bill up for a vote on Wednesday. Now would be a good time to email your congressional representative and let them know you intend to actively work for their defeat if they vote in favor of this travesty. Allowing multibillion dollar multinational banks to extract extra pounds of flesh from bankrupt citizens. Yes indeed just what this country needs. NOT.

To: Suma who wrote (16429)	4/12/2005 10:01:07 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

The Puppet Show Many of us as children recall the fascination of a puppet show. The entertaining antics of puppets manipulated by hidden puppeteers could be so distracting we forgot they were not dancing about of their own volition. We were enchanted by the story. And so the desired effect was achieved. We forgot about the puppeteers. Now that we are adults we still encounter puppet shows. But they are so well produced and the puppets are manipulated with such skill, we think we are seeing reality. When the Soviet Union came apart in the late 1980’s and the United States came to believe Russia was no longer a direct major threat to our national interests, the US Secretary of Defense directed a subordinate to draw up a long term plan for US global domination through military strategy. The Secretary of Defense was Dick Cheney. The subordinate was Paul Wolfowitz. The puppet show we see now is the invasion of Iraq. There are other things happening on stage as well. There are mutterings about neocons. The President is traveling about the country trying to persuade the public that social security should be partially privatized. The heads of the majority party in congress were wagging their fingers and talking about one “right to die” case, out of hundreds that existed in this country. But what are the puppeteers up to? It is hard to tell. The stage is elaborate. The puppeteers are hard to visualize. We once had faith that our national leaders worked on behalf of the country and its citizens. But who do they really work for now? The real puppeteers, the men behind the curtain-- may very well be the heads of multinational corporations that profit from war and the extension of American empire. If war was not profitable, would we wage war now? If war was not profitable would we be building 14 US military bases in Iraq? Don’t ask the elected politicians. They derive their campaign money from the puppeteers. Don’t ask the media. They’re part of the problem. Some are actually helping pull the strings. Is there an answer to this conundrum? Look to those the administration seems to hate the most. They have their axes to grind as well, but they also have their reasons. And many of those reasons are the direct result of US foreign policy over the last 40 years. The CIA calls it “blowback.” The puppet show must occasionally adjust for blowback. But it’s all in stride. The show must go on. And the money must flow. Our money: flowing away from our pocketbooks, schools, churches, streets, police forces, firemen and food pantries, and into the hands of the arms manufacturers and dealers. globalissues.org