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Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:08:03 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#25 Actually my hed was a play on a piece of dialogue from the tail end of <i>Romancing The Stone</i>.  The Danny DiVito character is standing on the dock in Cartagena, Colombia as the <i>federales</i> are closing in about to make him a long-term guest of Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:26:07 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#24 There's certainly some major change coming soon.  A <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003454509_iraq30.html">classified US memo</a> says that Maliki is currently doing a <a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.as Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:05:07 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#23 Designated: Succinct. Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:58:31 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#22 On the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/30/iraq.study.group/index.html">topic of the Iraq Study Group report</a>, a leaked report says it will recommend a phased withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and a call for more dialogue and involvement wit Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:10:38 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#21 It seems that you have returned again to the issue of economic growth, instead of combating corruption. 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Their economies will not miss the US consumer too much.</i> <p> Even accepting the plausibility of the rest of your Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:14:58 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#5 Bush is done and over with.  His foolish adventure in Iraq has already cost him control of both houses of Congress.  The budgetary discipline he has shown over his two terms (straight from the "Drunken Sailor On Shore Leave School Of Economics") Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:25:27 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#4 What he can do is watch the economy crash and burn, and the dollar finish its stint as the international currency of choice.<p> House prices in the US will continue to collapse, and the many "interest-only payments" mortgages that are out there will reach Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:21:35 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/11/27/105453/33#3    I like the idea, but I can't see how W can get out of the corner he's chosen to paint himself into. <br>    Now that the midterms have ended in disaster, one way to regain a legacy will be to oversee a Republican resurgence in 2008. 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