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  • From: Chris Hedemark <chris AT yonderway.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] anyone see the Bush speech?
  • Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:23:35 -0400

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:01 PM, David R. Matusiak wrote:

since i don't have tv access, i couldn't see Dubya speak last nite.

Delayed reaction since my home is "offline" so my mail pickup & delivery is largely dependent on where I happen to be with my notebook and if that place has an Internet connection I can borrow or not.

I watched enough of it to see the guy who was previously lauded as a "plain talker" reduced to the most greasy sideways political double talk. I'm not surprised. And yes, I voted for the "other guy" (if the other guy you are thinking of is Harry Brown, anyway).

does anyone have an opinion?

We're going to war. Dubya has put impossible demands on Hussein. He painted this all rosey as a way out for that dictator but in reality there is no way any sovereign leader, especially Hussein, would go along with the president's demands.

do you want to go to war?

No.

I don't like Hussein one bit. Don't get me wrong. But as the last remaining superpower (depending on whether or not you count China), we need to be sensitive to how we are viewed by the rest of the world, and we also need to lead the way for other nations to follow.

The President Hedemark plan would actually cost about as much as a prolonged war & nation building mission in Iraq, probably, but the death toll on both sides would be much lower. Under my plan, U.S and allied oil companies would work side by side with the U.S. federal government with financial aid from our government to convert their facilities to producing bio-fuels. Every day we send boatloads of U.S. dollars to hostile nations to get back boatloads of petroleum. While our petroleum can be used only once, that money can be used many times over improving the livelihoods of the very people who hate us.

If we were able to facilitate an aggressive shift towards the use of home grown bio-fuels, it's a win-win situation for the U.S. The boatloads of money we spend on petroleum are kept here, within our borders, improving the livelihoods of Americans. American farmers would have a huge new market for their currently undervalued products. And while it is not as clean as using fuel cells, bio fuels can be used today and have much lower harmful emissions that petroleum based fuels. Not to mention bio fuels are a renewable resource, while petroleum is not.

With the majority of our fuel production moving to within our borders, our troops can come home and stop representing our interests in that unstable region.

Over time, the money saved could be put towards solving more domestic problems or perhaps *gasp* give it back to the taxpayers.

do you think it would help anything?

Nah. We made Sadam Hussein the man he is today. We also made Usama Bin Laden the man he is today. Funny how the major news outlets don't want to run those stories. Look back, we have a long proud history of paying monsters to do our dirty work for us.

Remember that other really bad man we took out so many years ago? Noriega? Wasn't he on the CIA payroll, too?

do you think we are being provided sufficient information to debate/decide as a people?

No. The worst enemy of a politician is a well informed voter. We're not getting much information. Dubya gets up and say "Hussein is a bad baaaad man. We gotta go get him."

A few days go by, his adjectives get a little stronger, but he basically says the same thing.

Then he shows us a picture of a building that was once bombed, and more recently rebuilt. No intelligence reports of what was actually inside of those buildings. Could be a condom factory for all we know. But *gasp* we bombed buildings ten years ago and that bad baaaaad Sadam Hussein built them back up again.

Oops, did Dubya forget to mention that Reagan had the CDC in Atlanta send over all kinds of "weapons of mass destruction" to Baghdad back in the 80's for "medical research"? Funny how this was going on right around the time that Iraq fought Iran (how convenient...). Looking in Hussein's shopping cart you could find such household items as anthrax, west nile virus (hmmmm), and other "Really Bad Things" [tm].

Chris Hedemark
Professional Computer Consulting & Videography
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." -Steve Wright





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