Boy, if this isn't like the old Soviet Union. I read somewhere that the terrorists (whom we created and empowered) have gotten wise to electronic transfers of money and information, so they're back to doing it the old fashioned way, carrying suitcases full of money, hiding messages behind the loose brick in the wall and the like. Cleaning up the mess in Iraq and in Palestine would be infinitely more effective than turning us into a dictatorship. Instead we have the worst of both worlds. Knowing what I know about the Soviet Union, I was stunned when I saw the headline. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16472777/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html