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To: TigerPaw who wrote (61895)	3/24/2006 10:01:44 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 362779

Someone told me to pray for Cheney's health because if something happens to him Bush will be President !!!!LOL

To: TigerPaw who wrote (61895)	3/24/2006 10:21:06 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362779

Slipperier Slope Posted by James Wolcott jameswolcott.com <<...Where's the fun in being the World's Sole Remaining Superpower if you can't bust your buttons and zippers with an inflated sense of entitlement, and order everyone around with a Sinatra snap of the fingers? Problem is, the US is so dependent on the kindness of foreign bankers and businesses that it can't lean on other countries with its former authority, especially with the war in Iraq demonstrating for all to see the full scope of American foolhardiness, waste, ineptitude, and crony corruption. When our creditors get tired of being lectured, threatened, and strong-armed, they may decide to let the US sink into the morass of its own myopia and indebtedness. So warns economist Stephen Roach in his latest Morgan Stanley report (courtesy of Prudent Bear), who's been racking up frequent-flyer miles visiting our disgruntled trading partners: "My travel schedule is planned months in advance. It was only by happenstance that I found myself in both Beijing and Dubai this past week -- two of the more recent flashpoints in a US-led pushback against globalization. What I found in both cities unsettled me -- disappointment and frustration over America’s attitude toward two of its major providers of foreign capital. The United States has been having a good deal of trouble with its overseas image in recent years. The feedback from Beijing and Dubai is that this image is going rapidly from bad to worse -- something a saving-short US economy can ill afford."...>>