>Well, one reason is to enable Karl Rove to mastermind keeping the
>Bush-Cheney regime in power against all the numbers and the revolt
>of the retired generals now occurring, as well as to extend the full
>implementation of the Program for the New American Century (PNAC) --
>i.e., continuation of empire-building, control of the world's oil
>supply, and extraction of incredibly huge profits for a narrow
>sector of global capital (while bankrupting others). Some, including
>me, speculate that the orchestrated Avian Flu "epidemic" will be
>9-11 all over again, but on a much grander scale. (There are other
>possible rationales as well, commensurate with securing the
>interests of the sector of the ruling class in power.)
Betcha that doesn't happen Mitch.
Doug