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   From: drew@technologist.com   
      
   On 20 Apr, 08:32, Scott  wrote:   
      
   > You mean sponsors and supporters of brutal dictators and terrorists;   
      
   US supports business-friendly states...those that allow business the   
   way the US   
   likes it are "democratic".  Those that don't are states run by   
   "dictators and terrorists   
   or Stalinist, communist, totalitarian regimes."  It's got damn all to   
   do with the actual   
   mechanisms of government that exist in said countries except as they   
   relate to American   
   business interests.  If they would be honest about this it would still   
   be wrong...but at least   
   it would be the truth.   
      
   The business of the American government has always been business...but   
   never more   
   than today.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)