>
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> This is from James Meek's report in yesterday's Guardian. It almost
> sounds like a hoax...
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> >
> >Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, passed it
> >on his way north, but he never knew it was there.
> >
> >"I've been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I
> >ain't seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant," he said.
> >"These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of twenty
> >five hundred people you got a McDonald's at one end and a Hardee's
> >at the other."
>
^^^^^^^
CB: Well, now I can see why the Iraqis are so anxious to conquer America with all these extraordinary treasures we got here that they don't.
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