[extropy-chat] PRECOG: The Smoking Gun is found..

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

Hard to say which is worse that or - hope for dividends to North America's
economy after removing saddam  pushing the decision makers  to remove
saddam in the first place.

The all the parties who maufacture weapons will naturally  root for their
customers to stay around.

I got a call from a broker selling General Dynamics shares flogging the
military budget increase from 350 to 550 billion and the removal of the
profit cap as reasons to invest.

The redeeming factor will be:  is it going to create a social and economic
revolution for the Iraquis
to see government overthrow?

Will the net military resource expenditure decrease?

If we have to divert the world's attention to sending men to mars and
developing the technology it sure as hell beats playing stupid human tricks
in the political sandbox.



Mike Lorrey wrote:

> --- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > .. the Iraqi Governing Council has uncovered documents that
> > > prove that Saddam paid off a number of high ranking Chirac
> > > government officials in the months leading up to the War in
> > > exchange for France's opposition to US actions.
> >
> > This would be a very big deal if true Mike. And a pretty big
> > deal if it wasn't true but was a political beat up.
> >
> > What's your source?
>
> http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040128-094014-7323r.htm
>
> Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
>
> BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil
> ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing
> the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
>
> The oil ministry papers, described by the independent Baghdad newspaper
> al-Mada, are apparently authentic and will become the basis of an
> official investigation by the new Iraqi Governing Council, the
> Independent reported Wednesday.
>
> "I think the list is true," Naseer Chaderji, a governing council
> member, said. "I will demand an investigation. These people must be
> prosecuted."
>
> Such evidence would undermine the French position before the war when
> President Jacques Chirac sought to couch his opposition to the invasion
> on a moral high ground.
>
> A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the
> reports but refused further comment.
>
> French diplomats have dismissed any suggestion their foreign policy was
> influenced by payments from Saddam, but some European diplomats have
> long suspected France's steadfast opposition to the war was less moral
> than monetary.
>
> "Oil runs thicker than blood," is how one former ambassador put his
> suspicions about the French motives for opposing action against Saddam.
>
> Al-Mada's list cites a total of 46 individuals, companies and
> organizations inside and outside Iraq as receiving Saddam's oil bribes,
> including officials in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates,
> Turkey, Sudan, China, Austria and France, as well as the Russian
> Orthodox Church, the Russian Communist Party, India's Congress Party
> and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
>
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
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>                                        - Gen. John Stark
> "Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
>                                        - Mike Lorrey
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