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To: Rock_nj who wrote (57072)	7/20/2005 12:50:23 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

LOL tsig was my first sorta rat - back around 2000 - got a 5 bagger from it - then got out on big spike up. I agree with you. I think we need a thorough reexamination of US policy after Bush - and I hope includes a staged withdrawal from the Middle East including the former Soviet Republics. This may be forced on the US - as we may find in 5-10 years that we can no longer pay the bill to be the Imperial Power, and can no longer recruit enough people to fill the slots either.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (57072)	7/20/2005 12:52:51 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57584

London mayor says West fuelled Islamic radicalism LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) - Western foreign policy has fuelled the Islamist radicalism behind the bomb attacks which killed more than 50 people in London, the British capital's mayor Ken Livingstone said on Wednesday. Asked on Wednesday what he thought had motivated the four suspected suicide bombers, Livingstone cited Western policy in the Middle East and early American backing for Osama bin Laden. "You've just had 80 years of Western intervention into predominantly Arab lands because of a Western need for oil. We've propped up unsavoury governments, we've overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic," Livingstone said. "I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s ... the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs, and set him off to kill the Russians to drive them out of Afghanistan. "They didn't give any thought to the fact that once he'd done that, he might turn on his creators," he told BBC radio. But an opinion poll this week showed two-thirds of Britons see a connection between the Iraq war and the bombings. A top think tank and a leaked intelligence memo have also suggested the war has made Britain more of a target for terrorists. Livingstone has made clear he condemns all killing, including suicide bombing. But is also a long-standing critic of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. "If you have been under foreign occupation, and denied the right to vote, denied the right to run your own affairs, often denied the right to work, for three generations, I suspect if it had happened here in England, we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves," he said on Wednesday. cnn.netscape.cnn.com