igor and the boys
paul ford writes in ftrain:
Do Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Cheney have coffins in the basement of the White House where they sleep during the day? Is Ari Fleischer secretly their hunchbacked errand boy? How are these people formed? What combination of parenting, and weather, and genetics, and ideology makes them so different from me, gives them the hunger to see their visions turned into action, into dollars and blood?
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I am amazed that people can turn such actions into a personal attack. It is possible that the people elected and appointed in our goverment are doing what they think is righ for the country and the world. It is our responsibility to keep them in check, but I cannot imagine that they "..hunger to see their visions turned into action, into dollars and blood". Mainly I cannot imagine simply for the fact that no matter what our policy is towards the resulting oil, the people who will mainly benefit would be the european nations who are protesting our actions so loudly. There is no way that we could use the Iraqi oil fields to lower the cost of gas nationwide more than 10-20 cents. On the other hand, countries such as germany and france (with gas prices up to $6.00 a LITER) would be reaping the rewards of an increased oil flow, or decrease in cost. I wonder if maybe, just MAYBE, our political leaders are actually trying to make the world on whole a BETTER place???
Posted by: Tim | April 14, 2003 09:32 AM