Thomas: There has to be a bigger context to the decision than"our" money. That context might include what is necessary for the victims - the Iraqi citizen who neither asked for Saddam or George.
---------- >From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Brad McCormick, Ed.D.'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Karen Watters Cole'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [Futurework] Pox Americana update ~ >Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:23 PM > > Brad, > > The money isn't "international money" or UN money". It's American > money. > > I would think that we can do what we like with "our" money. > > Including who might get it. > > No matter the apocryphal 'Dies Irae'. > > Harry > > ******************************************** > Henry George School of Social Science > of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 > http://haledward.home.comcast.net > ******************************************** > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad > McCormick, Ed.D. > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:20 PM > To: Karen Watters Cole > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Pox Americana update ~ > > Karen Watters Cole wrote: > >> >> *U.S. Bars Iraq Contracts for Nations That Opposed War* >> >> **By Douglas Jehl, NYT, December 9, 2003, 4:22 pm ET*** >> >> * >> >> >> >> 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 the step "is necessary for > the >> protection of the essential security interests of the United > States." > [snip] > > One would think that a born again Bush (burning with fervor for > Jesus?) would have heard that > > Judgment is the Lord's > > Just like, whenI heard the hubristic sh-t at the beginning of the > Iraq attack, I thought: > > Shock and awe are the Lord's. > > I am at best an agnostic, but I believe that man is not the > master of all things, and that each person is a "judge of the > world" > not in the sense of carrying out the > sentence, but in being able to > tell what deserves to exist, even if it > does not exist, from what does not deserve to exist, even if it > is effectively omnipotent. > > -- > > On NPR All Things Considered yesterday, > they interviewed journalists who have gone on forays with the > Iraq terrorists. These mainstream-U.S. journalists seemed pretty > generally convinced that the terorrists were pretty well > organized and pretty much able to do whatever they wanted -- > including having acquired some chemical (AKA batlefield WMD) > munitions. > > Messrs Bush and Rumsfeld and Chenyburton, have you heard of: > > Dies irae? > > \brad mccormick > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 12/5/2003 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
