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A brilliant piece of international strategy? Maybe somewhere beneath the half truths and flimsy grounds for the war itself, shortage of troops, reserve and National Guard call-ups, mountains of money, encouragement to AQ and others seeking a Moslem - US World War, emboldening of our adversaries, urgency and encouragement to those seeking nuclear weapons who believe they're the only thing preventing US attacks and our international isolation there is a brilliant plan. I suppose the fact the President's poll numbers are down, in large measure due to Iraq, is also part of the plan. Not only is he snookering the terrorists but the Democrats too. I find it all more than a little hard to believe which is, clearly, why I don't believe it. Bush is digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself and, unless the Congress saves him from himself and demands the troops come home now, he could easily dig his way right out of office.

To explain the brilliance of Bush's plan would take many pages. At the core of the effort is the attempt to corrupt Iraq with what is usually called Modernity, that is, with the Brittney Spears - Madonna culture. To make them like modern Americans, cultural and religious relativists, multiculteralists, tolerant of any sin, and engaged in endless efforts to impress the Jones, or in this case the Mohammad next door.

To buy cars on time, houses on mortgage, to "invest" in the stock market, to demand the "right" to health care and social security pensions.

This culture of ours is the most lethal of all of our weapons, vastly more effective than any number of nukes, and will spread from Iraq throughout the Moslem world.

The West being rich the Moslem can stand, by saying to himself that he is more virtuous than any American and that the American's have stolen all of their wealth from people like himself. To see Iraq "prosperous and peaceful" would shatter his world view. Total demoralization follows. Islam would no longer be of world - historical importance.

This $87,000,000,000 - A sizeable chunk of cash, certainly, must have taken all night to print out the mass of hundreds, 870,000,000 pieces of paper, actually a great weight, is for BRIBES, enough money to give every Iraqi a $100 dollars.

It would be wastefull to hand it out for nothing, and instead the money will pay for many things for many people, reliable electricity, roads, drinking water, sewage systems, millions of well paying jobs, and Home Depots, car dealerships, McDonalds, furniture and appliance stores, internet and cell phone vendors where thy can spend their money. Televise American television dubbed in Arabic, a hundred channels on the cable that carries the broadband for their entertainment.

They wouldn't stand a chance.