Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Posted here Tuesday, June 08, 2004 at 8:49:40 PM     This goes to the core. As I've been writing, pakistan and nuclear weapons are key. I had not gone so far as to see that oil and nuclear weapons *are the prize*! http://bopnews.com/ for june 8 Kerry will inherit a host of problems that if not dealt with effectively could either destroy or cripple America. The most obvious is what we call terrorism, but which is more than that – a giant game of Empire with oil and nuclear weapons as the prizes. From Afghanistan to Morocco, but centering in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (not in Iraq or Afghanistan) this game will determine who controls the most important resource in the world. Oil. And the US isn’t winning this war, it’s losing it. Saudi Arabia is increasingly unstable; it’s armed forces are unreliable; it’s strongest allies are ideologically wedded to the House of Saud’s greatest enemy and it’s greatest resource (oil) is exposed to strikes whenever it’s opponents choose. ********

Posted here Tuesday, June 08, 2004 at 7:01:05 PM     I do think that Bush will declare victory and leave as much of Iraq behind as he can. They got democracy, the UN can run it. The Iraqi people are great, it was all worth while, now, on the economy,... ********

Posted here Tuesday, June 08, 2004 at 6:59:10 PM     Spent part of the afternoon with an American in Iraq reporter Meg Laughlin http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962935244.html?oneclick=true whose picture of the war is devastating. just mess. Any idea that this is a high tech war misses the reality... at a field host[ptial, an american group of soldiers shoot down an unidentified navy plane, Airforce retaliates killing half the americans. She says about half of all fatalities are either accident or freindly fire. The nervousnous and preparation are at the immanent disaster level. And the hatred towards americans has grown very deep. Difficult afternoon.   ********