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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com><BR>
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This is from James Meek's report in yesterday's Guardian. It almost <BR>
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>Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, passed it <BR>
>on his way north, but he never knew it was there.<BR>
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>"I've been all the way through this desert from Basra to here and I <BR>
>ain't seen one shopping mall or fast food restaurant," he said. <BR>
>"These people got nothing. Even in a little town like ours of twenty <BR>
>five hundred people you got a McDonald's at one end and a Hardee's <BR>
>at the other."<BR>
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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.<BR>
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