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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (19178)	6/4/2007 1:09:08 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217544

Have a look at the true costs of the Iraqi War. Americans have not yet perceived the cost effect of the war but when these costs hit them, they wil be severely affected. Message 23586270 The US government costs a lot of money. The economy have supported those costs for 60 years after WWII ended. Now the country is living beyond its means. It is fast shrinking to its natural size in need to cut costs. Not cutting costs, it will have no way but to default. Give you one example: Argentina, had 400.000 redundant civil servants. Didn't sack them. Argentina needed to abandon their state-owned universities oj its own. Needed to force the provinces to spend what they collected in taxes and not expect central government to support them. Did nothing like that. Result? default!

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (19178)	6/4/2007 1:15:11 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217544

People who know the real status of US economy are desperate. "the crippled British government relied significantly on oil revenues from its empire." The British emprie was running on empty and need to take over others wealth to keep running. "But the increasingly nationalist impulses of the Iranian government led to increased assertiveness, including demands for accountability in payment of royalties." roanoke.com The US want to take over oil sources and extract wealth form countries like Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (19178)	6/4/2007 1:24:32 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217544

Note the old folks being brought back by Washington: Baker III, Volcker. Lots of senile people, see please Greenspan. Democrats know that too. Why they didn't force the troops out? Because once out of here it can never ever return. It explains why no anti-war movement in the US. The press keeps quiet not to make a case for anti-war. From here all the way to Russia the hands of the US will be off the oil. It has always Venezuela oil and that patch of oil between FLA and Cuba to rely on :-) Note if press makes a case for anti-war, US out of the middle east, what happens to Israel? Yes, it will have to make peace with the Palestinians... As you can see the whole thing is interconnected. For US in LATAM: peace, ethanol, self sufficient in oil, well positioned with demographic window, lots of commodities to send to India and China... We are OK. All that point to a single thing: DECOUPLING!

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (19178)	6/4/2007 1:37:43 AM
From: critical_mass	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217544

This why there is no significant popular anti-war movement in the US. A draft would resuscitate the anti-war movement in the general populace overnight.