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To: Elroy who wrote (218363)	2/14/2007 2:45:53 AM
From: Garden Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Elroy, I'm not talking about Bill Gates, IBM or any private philanthropist, I'm talking about the US military and its tentacles all over the planet. Furthermore, you have quite an arrogant attitude to think the world likes "our style", other countries and cultures prefer their own methods and means to handle matters in their own part of the world. As far as Korea, most of the S. Koreans would like to reunite w/N. Korea and would like us out of their country. We are there less for the S. Koreans and more for our own strategic interests. You ask a lot of questions, I'll ask you a few: Would you like China to put in a military base in Venezuela? Would you like Iran to supply Cuba with missiles? How about having Hugh Chavez send money to the US to set up political parties advocating "socialism." (By the way the US sends money to endorse political parties in Venezuela). I'm anxious to see you discuss those questions I've presented.

To: Elroy who wrote (218363)	2/14/2007 2:57:07 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Geez Elroy, are you naive. "If the US can improve things in other parts of the world, we should do so. Just because other parts of the world are not American is no reason to stop programs designed to improve other parts of the world." Yep, I think having Micky D's spreading high fat, highly processed diets to the rest of the world is simply peachy keen. I think Nike using slave labor in the rest of the world is really only about economic development in third world countries and not about profit LOL. What a child you are Elroy. democracynow.org "...Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.”