Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:30:16 -0400
From: "MD\"Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Barack Obama intends to implement a 21st century economic agenda to help
ensure that America can compete in a global economy, and ensure the middle
class is thriving and growing. He will increase investments in
infrastructure (which is falling behind, it's nuclear reactors are becoming
old). Nuclear plants, wind produce environmentally clean energy, reduce
dependence on foreign oil, improve education, research and development;
modernize and simplify tax code that provides greater opportunity and relief to
more Americans; He intends to mplement trade policies that benefit American
workers and increase the export of American goods.
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Mario asks:
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MD,
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Since Obama has never done any of these things before, how do you decide
whether to believe him or not?
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Do you work for the Obama campaign? Do you have any idea what his background
and experience is?
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MD writes:
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Before the war in Iraq ever started, Senator Obama said that it was wrong in
its conception. In 2002, then Illinois State Senator Obama said Saddam
Hussein posed no imminent threat to the United States and that invasion
would lead to an occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost,
with undetermined consequences. Since then, Senator Obama has laid out a
plan on the way forward in Iraq that has largely been affirmed by the
bipartisan Iraq Study Group led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton.
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Mario asks:
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MD, what do you have against the innocent Iraqi people? What have they ever
done to you? Did you prefer what Iraq was like under Saddam Hussein?
Did you ever hear of all those mas graves? Do you know why the UN imposed
no-fly zones in Iraq? Did you ever hear of the 17 UN resolutions that Saddam
never complied with and the sanctions that the UN imposed on Iraq? I wonder
why they did that.
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Do you have any idea what Saddam did between 1990 and 2003?
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MD writes:
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Just imagine the amount America has so far spent on Iraq, despite all that
the absolute winner is Iran, as Shia majority that is ruling Iraq, has more
loyalty to fellow Shia Iran, the invasion induced Al-Qaida to establish in
Iraq, the Sunnis are given incentives to contain violence, and even
Hezbollah has become part of the Lebanese government. The money saved from
Iraq will help American domestic economy.
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Mario asks:
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So, it is the money you are concerned about, and not the tyranny that the Iraqi
people were subjected to, not to mention the menace to the entire region? I
guess this means we need to count our money before we go rescue someone being
subjected to tyranny. No wonder we see so many people being brutalized in
Africa - no one is willing to spend the money to help them, except that America
has pledged to spend 63 BILLION dollars to help them fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and
malaria.
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Just imagine what Iraq would have been like if, after Saddam's heavy and brutal
heel had been removed from their necks, the Iraqis would have decided to reject
Al Qaeda and worked together, with American sid, to reconstruct their country
and live in peace and harmony, just like the citizens of Italy, Germany and
Japan did after WW-II?
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MD writes:
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India's domestic economy is flourishing so much, it does not even has to
look out for export. In fact when they controlled export of rice, the price
went up in no timein Canada! and consumers began hoarding rice! In fact I
heard quite a few Americans are working in Bangalore! Finally it is not so
easy to abruptly stop the already outsourced jobs, as the cost of relocating
them back to USA may be prohibitive.
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Mario responds:
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India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
By Saritha Rai, silicon.com
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Excerpt:
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Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more
sober days in the wake of the credit crisis.
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It looks like the global economic turmoil and the dramatic Wall Street
meltdown is beginning to hit Bangalore.
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MD writes:
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Without prejudice and information obtained from the world Wide Web.
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Mario responds:
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Oh, really? Nice try, MD. I know I was born at night, but it was not last
night:-))
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