Don't laugh folks...lovely, jazzy touch with much technical ability. You didn't say they had to be powerful...having said that, 'In The Air Tonight' ain't a bad testament!
The Who. Greatest drummer of 'em all...The Ox on bass...Daltrey's much under-rated power vocals, and one of the finest songwriters of our generation in the great Pete Townshend. He could play too...listen to 'Live At Leeds'...he's damn good...they're all freakin' good!
One paced...no on field leadership...confused tactics...I'd love to say they had a bad night but no, this is what we've seen for a few years now.
Time for top to bottom rethink aand changes.
The Boks are brutes...bullies with huge power and some fabulous backs to do the pretty work. Three teams are in this - New Zealand, South Africa and Australia...in that order too.
CNN, in its October 30, 2000 article "U.N. to Let Iraq Sell Oil for Euros, Not Dollars," states:
"A U.N. panel on Monday approved Iraq's plan to receive oil-export payments in Europe's single currency after Baghdad decided to move the start date back a week.
Members of the Security Council's Iraqi sanctions committee said the panel's chairman, Dutch Ambassador Peter van Walsum, would inform U.N. officials on Tuesday of the decision to allow Iraq to receive payments in euros, rather than dollars.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's office is to report in three months on the impact of the switch to euros, which a U.N. study said would cost Iraq at least $270 million.
Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Saeed Hasan reported earlier that Baghdad would delay the changeover until after Nov. 6, rather than put it into effect on November 1, as originally announced. Iraq has called the dollar the currency of an 'enemy state.'...
Iraq had also threatened to stop oil exports, the bulk of which flow through the U.N. humanitarian programme, if its request for payment in euros was denied...
Baghdad currently is selling about $60 million in crude a day, about 5 percent of the world's oil exports." 10/30/00 CNN
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman (D-OH), stated in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press broadcast on September 17, 2002:
"I base that on the fact that there is $5 trillion worth of oil above and in the ground in Iraq, that individuals involved in the administration have been involved in the oil industry, that the oil industry certainly would benefit from having the administration control Iraq, and that the fact is that, since no other case has been made to go to war against Iraq, for this nation to go to war against Iraq, represents the strongest incentive.
I believe most sincerely that one of the motivating factors involved in this effort to strike against Iraq is the desire on the part of some to be at the control the oil interests in Iraq, I believe that."
This is enlightening...http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/09/17/iraq_and_oil_a_8212_why_the_mainstream_m
Alan Greenspan uttered..."I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows. The Iraq war is largely about oil." That's an extract from the memoirs of Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve.
Also..."If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands," Greenspan said, "our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first gulf war. And the second gulf war is an extension of the first. My view is that Saddam, looking over his 30-year history, very clearly was giving evidence of moving towards controlling the Straits of Hormuz, where there are 17, 18, 19 million barrels a day" passing through.”
”Greenspan said disruption of even 3 to 4 million barrels a day could translate into oil prices as high as $120 a barrel -- far above even the recent highs of $80 set last week -- and the loss of anything more would mean "chaos" to the global economy.”
Here's the link...http://www.redstate.com/blogs/cni_redrum/2007/sep/18/no_wars_for_oil_don_t_believe_the_green_spam
Of course there's lots of stuff...but it's the comments from such highly placed sources that are of interest.
It's not in the name of Islam though...well it is but they don't represent mainstream Islam. There are many factions within Islam...many of which fight eachother. It's well known that Saddam and OBL hated eachother!!!
Nope...Islam is being used as a front for what is merely Middle Eastern dissatisfaction at Western meddling, in the main.
I see your point...but there's a well known campaign of terror-mongering being waged by both the US and UK administrations...exagerating the threats from such sources manifold in order to justify their actions against such forces.
So it could be said WE are being propagandized also!
OBL himself is an extremely wealthy man...but in hin twisted principles, he see's an injustice and in his self righteousness, seeks to right it.
It's about idealism initially...but lots of these so called idealists are nothing more than gangsters and criminals maquerading as 'freedon fighters'. Look at Northern Ireland...
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Beck, Bogert & Apice...bloody powerful stuff...funky too!