Reply #60: LIHOP is inconceivable.

[Beam Me Up]

When you are playing for such high stakes--global military dominance and the wealth of nations--at least 15 TRILLION dollars of oil and natural gas reserves now in the hands of Wall Street--you don't just 'allow' things to happen. THEY MANUFACTURE REALITY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES. They've even said so.

Ron Suskind quoting an unnamed White House source (most likely Karl Rove) in a 10.17.04 New York Times Sunday Magazine article:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=