<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=galliher@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu href="mailto:galliher@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu">C. G. Estabrook</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 15, 2003 1:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] What's the story?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review <<A href="http://www.prorev.com">www.prorev.com</A>>. --CGE]<BR><BR>After spending tens of billions of dollars, stretching its military<BR>readiness to the limits, two wars and a lengthy embargo that left a<BR>million dead, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>i love sam smith and his analysis, but i believe he's at least 1/2 million short here.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>the United States has captured the former dictator of a<BR>country with a population roughly that of Texas, a size twice that of<BR>Idaho, military expenditures 0.36% those of the US, and a GDP roughly the<BR>size of the annual revenues of Sony and one-third those of Wal-Mart. The<BR>Washington Post devoted 16 pages to the incident.<BR><BR>***<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>