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To: Road Walker who wrote (235108)	5/31/2005 4:29:56 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572017

I was talking to my wife about this. Bush's squandering of the people's goodwill after 9/11 makes me physically ill. When I think about how he could have announced a crash program to spend $100-200B on alternative fuels, energy conservation, etc to reduce our dependence on the Middle East, and how he did nothing of the sort, it literally makes me feel sick. Lost opportunities. It was a collossal failure of imagination. Another idea I had was that Bush should have turned Iraq's oil industry into a corporation and then mandated that 50% of the shares go to the elected constitutional gov't, and the other 50% would be distributed as to all citizens of Iraq. From then on out, you'd have a liberated people who would not only have a vote in their gov't and therefore indirect control over the gov't share of the oil wealth, but you'd also have citizens who had a direct share in the countries oil wealth, including Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds. The one rule to this would be that if you are an insurgent or a citizen with blood on his hands, you forfeit all your shares. That action alone would have ensured that no insurgency ever took root. Everyone would be so concerned about protecting their newfound oil wealth, they would have turned in any insurgents from the get go. Like I said, the biggest failure of this Bush administration has been one of imagination.