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To: geode00 who wrote (94803)	1/8/2007 9:16:53 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361499

You know a good portion of the American population are just plain stoopid when they volunteer to fight an obviously economically driven war for oil in Iraq. Then 30% of the dolts in the general population still support this totally misguided war effort for greed despite attrocities such as Abu Gahrib and civillian slaughters like Haditha that totally call into question the legtimacy of our war campaign. It's just too easy for the Republicans to use these mindless twits. I stopped getting angry and upset about it soon after 9/11 happened. There is no way in my mind that 9/11 just happened with no foreknowledge of our government. It was too big of an operation to go undetected by the CIA. Then it turns out the a former high level CIA officer owned the stock firm that the questionable pre-9/11 short option airlines trades were traced back to (that story dropped out of the media). Then there's the Afghan adventure that was sold as a war on terrorism, but is really an effort to put our military in the bully seat in the oil rich Central Asia area. We had a chance to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden and a lot of his fellow travelers in Dec 2001 in Afghanstan and the Bush adminstration literally refused the necessary troops requested by the CIA and let Bin Laden slip into Pakistan. Why the hell did they let that happen?!? Then, we have the petroleum loving NeoCons lying and agitating for war with Iraq soon after 9/11 (how convient), one of the biggest oil prizes in the World. All part of the Republican game plan to control the world's oil reserves. And it is made possible by an endless supply of dolts and twits willing to volunteer their services for economic explotation.

To: geode00 who wrote (94803)	1/8/2007 9:29:01 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 361499

Bush to send some 20,000 more troops to Iraq: senator Mon Jan 8, 6:24 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has decided to send about 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq, a Republican senator who met the president on Monday said. "It was clear to me that a decision has been made for a surge of, I suppose, 20,000 additional troops," Sen. Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Oregon told reporters in a telephone conference call after a White House meeting. Smith said the president had told him and several other senators that the plan for the additional troops had originated with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Maliki had made commitments that the Iraqi government and military would take steps to strengthen security in exchange for more U.S. troops, Smith said. news.yahoo.com