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To: geode00 who wrote (184842)	4/8/2006 9:01:28 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wonder if, as with global warming, we've passed the tipping point on the state of our country. I still don't see anyone figuring out how to deal with the lack of competitiveness. If you think it's bad here, consider France. If we keep on outsourcing jobs, what exactly will we use to finance all of these imperialistic ambitions? Actually I'm kind of tired of hearing about this "imperialistic" nonsense. Imperialism implies expanding the borders of a country, in the manner that Old Europe was so famous for. The US has not been and never will be an imperialistic colonial empire. Bush's game has nothing to do with imperialism. It has to do with lining the pockets of the wealthy, and locking in ideological control of the country (in the manner of that latest book "Painting the Map Red"). Bush (and above all Cheney and the neocons) could care less if things f***k up bigtime in Iraq, as long as at the end they can exploit the situation for ideological and monetary profit. They all know they can bullshit their way out of the problems over there, as they've been doing all along so far. Unless their luck runs out and they lose control of Congress in the coming elections.