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Perhaps they always were a little mad and are now
becoming more so. Naom Chomsky has a new book out, "Hegemony or
Survival". I saw a short televised interview with him last
night in which he argued that the US Administration has become so obsessed with
power that it has become a real danger to the world. George Soros says
something similar in an article in the current Atlantic. Madness does seem
to have descended upon us.
Ed
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Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:21
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Subject: [Futurework] Are they going
mad?
What irony! If there could have been any
"justification" for America invading Iraq, it was because Saddam was excluding
US and UK oil corporations from development contracts in the rich oilfields of
northern Iraq.
What's up with the Bush team? Are they going
mad? Those whom the Gods wish to destroy .............
I think
the Bush team is falling to pieces. Consider. Two days ago, Powell wanted NATO
to help with the occupation of Iraq. Now the Pentagon comes out with this
(below). Of course, this could seen as an immediate riposte to NATO turning
him down (or, rather, expressing reservations).
No, I think the members
of the Bush team are now staggering about from one decision to another with
little coordination of strategy. They're in a schizophrenic state. They really
don't know what to do in Iraq. (Besides, why are they thinking about
reconstruction contracts when they should be applying themselves to the prime
objective of bringing about an Iraqi government by July?)
I repeat my
guess of a couple of days ago. I think Powell (and perhaps Condee) will resign
soon. Then the team will really be seen to be falling apart.
Now that
Howard Dean is overwhelmingly the Democratic front-runner, it's possible that
there'll now be a tidal wave of opinion against Bush. I'm amazed that America
has been so supine over the invasion so far -- considering Vietnam (and soon,
being kicked out of Afghanistan).
Keith Hudson
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PENTAGON BARS THREE NATIONS FROM IRAQ
BIDS
Douglas Jehl
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 The Pentagon has barred
French, German and Russian companies from competing for $18.6 billion in
contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, saying it was acting to protect "the
essential security interests of the United States."
The directive,
issued Friday by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, represents
the most substantive retaliation to date by the Bush administration against
American allies who opposed its decision to go to war in Iraq.
from New
York Times -- 10 December 2003
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Keith Hudson,
Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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