----- Original Message ----- From: To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 11/13/2005 3:04:24 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal Of course, isn't that some of what the neo-cons wanted to do in Iraq--make it a completely free-market nation which would showcase how great life was like in the world of globalized economy? A.A. Boy, will you swallow anything. They wanted the oil. They wanted rebuilding contracts. They wanted a puppet state. Didn't they have on board numerous of global companies who were aching to get in and see how it would work? Were it not for destroying the infrastructure, I imagine they would have gotten their wish. A.A. Were it not for a little thing like doing no planning for this invasion and this dream. And, you would have been able to see how well that would have worked...and how little exploitation would have happened. A.A. What's that Jimmy Cagney line, I wish I were a wishing well? If they were wishing wells, they would have had all kinds of goodies. I do agree with you that compulsory government service would be healthy for all US citizens. I think it will come... A.A. If this war keeps going, that's a real good possibility. The next president will have to deal with it. Andy Amago Balancing the viewpoint, Marlena