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Your message didn't get posted on sust-mar? Probably it contained html coding. Use your "Format" pull-down menu to switch to plain text format. ____________________________________________________________________________ War in Iraq was inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s. That it would be in Iraq was decided more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners, but city planners. War was inevitable not because of weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of Western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war, and probably the one that will follow, is car dependence. Car-making is now the main industrial employer in the world., dominated by five major groups, of which General Motors is the largest. The livelihood and landscape of the US and Canada were forged by car-makers. Motor vehicles are responsible for about one-third of global oil use, but for nearly two-thirds of US oil use. The United States has paved itself into a corner. Its physical and economic infrastructure is so highly car-dependent that the country is pathologically addicted to oil. Without billions of barrels of precious black sludge being pumped into the veins of the economy every year, the US would experience painful and damaging withdrawal . . . Ian Roberts, Professor of Public health, London School of Economics cited in ADBUSTERS Jul/Aug 2003 http://www.adbusters.org ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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