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To: epicure who wrote (63389)	5/4/2008 7:57:46 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542999

US-backed plan sees shiny future for embattled Green Zone Extremely weird. But it fits with some of the writing about various plans for Iraq that came out of the Pentagon; that is, their clearly unreal character.

To: epicure who wrote (63389)	5/4/2008 9:23:58 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542999

Re: Marriott is planning a Downtown Baghdad unit. There is a subset of people who are talented at exploiting circumstances to turn a buck, and they tend to be well-connected. "WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." --- US Major General Smedley Butler, 1935