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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68751)	12/30/2006 5:55:44 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

Maurice, Keep your eye on the old Mosul to Haifa oil pipeline, closed in 1948, to see what happens there over the next few years. Also you should keep your eye on the three US "desert bases" in western Iraq to see if they are located as many suspect, to guard the aforementioned pipeline. Our local National Guard unit has just returned from a years Iraq duty (and not a single casualty, thankfully) and I am trying to find out anything I can about this business that way. On Jews and the American left, I can give you a big reading list of books on the origins and rise of the left through the New Deal and beyond and after working your way through this stuff I think you would conclude that I am right on this point. Back at the time of the New Deal Jews voted Democrat at about a 95% rate and Jewish institutions supported every kind of left/socialist program, indeed were the originators of many. And Jews still today vote largely Democrat, something like 75%. The thing about the Jews and the left is that they were totally "reliable" allies of the American left. Southerners, my clan, were Democrats too back then, and helped put through a bunch of socialist and semi-socialist measures, but with a difference. We were Democrats due to historical accident going back to Jefferson and stayed that way partly because of the Civil War, but generally southerners were very conservative. We could be "bought", however, and our participation was very "expensive". That limited our participation in the move to the left. Not so with the Jews, though. And if they had their way my country would be a very different place, socialist or worse. But things began to change some by the 1970's and now you have quite a number of leading conservative Jews. But the secular Jews are still very liberal, mostly it is the Orthodox Jews who are conservative and their numbers are growing while the more secular Jews are really in decline, population wise. Heck, even that crazy Jim Cramer claims to be a Democrat. Slagle