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Mike, do you get your knowledge of history from Our Weekly Reader?

So ... we invaded Iraq to exploit their natural resources and provide markets for our goods and services? Didn't you forget to add in employment opportunities for young men (of the proper class and breeding, of course - the rest can serve in the army of occupation)?

I seem to have heard that idea before ... what was it called? Colonial-something, I believe.

Got an example in the last 60 years where that kind of thing has worked, Mikey?

BTW ... $200,000,000 dollars for the war. According to testimony before Congress two weeks ago, what we spend on Iraq in a DAY is about the same as what we've spent on securing our ports SINCE 9/11.

Of course, I'm sure that the increased costs to corporate contribut, er, vital business interests that an appropriate container security system ($<50 a container shipment) has NOTHING to do with it ... any more than the effect of working with the French and Russians on economic and debt issues would have had on Haliburton (et al.)'s bottom line, er, vital issues of national soverignty.