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>You seem a bit angry.  Did you not sleep well last night?

Like a baby.....you seem a bit jaded, though.  Seriously, though, I don't
recall saying that everything in America is perfect, that all of our leaders
have squeaky clean, unquestionable integrity, etc.

Some of your statements echo those of the isolationists of the earlier part
of last century.  History has proved their view wrong, much to the dismay of
the millions of people who were slaughtered while we played "pocket pool."

I stand by my statements that ours is the best form of government.  My ideas
of world government may not really be very popular in this country, but I
stand by them, too.  I disagree completely with the idea that freedom and
equality for all peoples of the world would be bad for business.  Indeed, I
say it would be just the opposite.  I also disagree that there is some push
to "install" a puppet government in Iraq to "improve our influence over
world oil markets."  That idea is ludicrous and just doesn't hold water.  I
would again point you to the fact that Iraq represents a "drop in the
bucket" of world oil production.  Why spend hundreds of billions and
priceless lives to "influence?"   One could achieve far greater results
using one tenth the amount of money spread among the other OPEC nations.
Money is the only thing that persuades better than bombs....assuming, of
course, that you are dealing with rational people and not Saddam Hussein.

Cary

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