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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> > AFTER five days of fierce fighting in Fallujah, the US and Iraqi
> >    forces have declared that the battle is almost over, barring a few
> >    pockets of resistance.
>
>
> Much the same words as were put out on April 9, 2003, though not 
> nearly as compelling as the Mission Accomplished photo op on May 2nd.
>
> We are very good at military invasion, using bombs, boys and girls to 
> kill other boys and girls and obliterate buildings. We are less good 
> at reason, diplomacy, planning, preparation. Did I mention respect?
>
> A bonanza for construction companies. Keep your wallets open. You pay.
tvoivozhd---figure the first three or four years will cost us four 
hundred billion.  Bahrein, Kuwait, Qatar, the Emiratew are delighted 
with a U.S shield over them that costs them nothing in fiat currency or 
blood, and with  the apparent giving up of nuclear weapons by Iran as a 
threat to them like Saddam was (wait and see if the Iranians are any 
more truthful now than in the past)

As Powell said (not one of my favorite persons after extracting defeat 
from victory in 1991), in the Middle East Chinashop, "you break it, you 
own it".

A Manhattan Project in switching to renewable enerby would have been a 
better National Investment---but then the Oil Maggots---Bush, his 
superbribers Cheney, Halliburton and everyone else in the oil and coal 
racket couldn't get rich at taxpayers's expense.  Fundraising ability is 
the only one that counts---having no brains, no ethics and complete 
unconcern for basic national interests is almost as advantageous as lack 
of brains and ethics.

All the electrical energy the U.S. uses could be supplied by  solar 
concentrators (not PV) in a fifty mile radius from Gila Bend.