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Please do not take anything I say as pontificating. Hang on the ride is a rough one.

1. The difference between the first world and the third world is the middle class. The middle class will suffer most.

2. This born again christian may well have armagedon in mind. We are working on a "baby " nuke and congress has given Bush first strike with nuke permission. This was a part of the WMD cra p that gave him permission to go into Iraq.

3. Rome fell when they began to use mercinaries. We now have no draft.

4. Private mercinaries (from Halliburton) are being used in Iraq to, among other things, avoid the body count.

He has pissed off the world community. Lied to congress, the people and the UN.

The list is endless.