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Read This and weep.

Nothing has POUNDED the point home to me that the war on Iraq is a just and noble cause than this mans writing. He has a ping list on FR if you haven't seen his writing before.

www.ejectejecteject.com

This was an interesting article, a person could spend some time breaking things down. 2 things I noticed. A conquering nation maintains bases in countries and taxes them heavily to support that and the ruling nation. The bases we have in Japan and Germany, we pay them for that as well as employ the local population. 2nd, this isn't the Roman empire. George Bush cannot be in power for 15-30 years, as potentially the Caesar's could be (if they could avoid assasination). The idea of spreading Americanism by the military would never work, even if this was their goal, and I'm not sure it is, because there are term limits, and if the job of president is not done to satisfaction, he gets voted out. Highly unlikely that his successor and competitor for office would continue on this policy. If this was the policy of Bush, he should have started right after he got into office. It's already 2003, in under 2 years there will be another election. If the economy has not turned around, and the impending war goes badly, he will lose the election. Then where will this theory be? Or better yet, what if by some miracle there is no war? Then where will a lot of these theories be? (Going to war for daddy, for oil, etc, etc...)