I think there's at least a fighting chance that Guest, whoever Guest is, is basically right, Don. There is a behind-the-scenes cabal of very rich corporate industrialists and international bankers who run the USA, and they control both parties. Got that? Both of them. The Democrats and Republicans are owned by the same people...although they necessarily will present themselves differently, cutting a different PR style...that's necessary in order to create the illusion that when you have an American election, there's actually something to vote for! A choice. Well, there is no real choice. The game is...the $ySStem uses the Democrats to advance the agenda when the public has lost all faith in the Republicans...and uses the Republicans to advance the agenda when the reverse is true. It's like a soap opera or a cop show, and don't think that it hasn't been planned by the same kind of minds that do marketing surveys and write TV scripts and sell consumer products. It's media manipulation from the highest levels. The parties are rubber stamps for corporate policy. The President is a chosen "face" for the public to fixate on, while the real backers who are never named run the show.

Bush the Elder was in their pocket. Bill Clinton (though I rather like the man personally) was equally in their pocket. Bush Jr is in their pocket. Hillary...or whoever else they choose ahead of time to govern you poor souls will also be in their pocket.

It's all been planned well ahead of time...just like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were, long before 911. 911 was just the surprisingly convenient "provocation" that miraculously occurred at the perfect time to put the American public on a war footing, that's all. And the whole story of 911? I very much doubt that it will ever be told. Those stories never are. And Osama Bin Laden? Well, they don't really seem to need him all that much anymore, do they? Just like they don't really need Saddam anymore. A new "arch-fiend" will be found soon. Wait and see. Just in time for a new war. I wonder who it will be? I wonder if the poor bastard knows what's in store for him yet? Probably not.