Replying to a message of Geo. to Phil Payne:

 G> From: "Geo." 

 G> "Phil Payne"  wrote in message
 G> news:3E47B1C3.6CE8B5F{at}isham-research.com...

 >> With Saddam as contained as he is and North Korea threatening to run
 G> amok -
 >> with all manner of other states up to things in between - I just cannot
 >> understand why Iraq is so important.

 G> NK can be bought off, saddam cannot.

In your dreams.  Kim Jong Il is crazy as a bedbug.  While the people of NK
are starving, they've BEEN starving for over thirty years, neither Kim nor
his minions give a rat's *ss about them - except insofar as they can
provide more men for his army and control apparatus.

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