Capt. Mooron wrote:
This is what I can't understand...... nothing will be gained and yet a very
high price was paid.

But truly, you don't understand.... something very great was gained!

1- Halliburton and a select group of gov't contractors have reaped (and
will continue to reap) billions of dollars

2- a small select group has used the natural emotional illogic of a
large number of voters to get a tighter grip on power

Surely both of those things are worth 1,200+ young lives, especially
when a large number of them are from poor & less-well-connected
families, who would only have ended up in jail or dead in car accidents
anyway.



The cloak of morality is ill afforded a conqueror. To win you must make the
battle decisive, the subjugation ruthless and the history written to
reflect your glory.

Yes but you have to wait a hundred years or so for the "glory" to
overcome the curses & pledges of vengeance from the defeated, and for
the peasants to have sweated off the crushing debt load.




I'd be really impressed if the USA went into Palestine!

I mean really.... that is the root of the cancer in the middle east. Or is
it Israel?

Several people within the Bush Administration have decided that Israel
is the 51st state, and that the problem with the Sharon gov't is that it
is not extremist enough. I would not joke about the Bush clan wanting to
invade Palestine.

DSK