Here in Idaho the only place you can hide from commercial television after the end of Wheel of Fortune is PBS. There's not that much to do. In the evening I'm tired of writing, fiddling with my Internet, Direct Mail and Mail Order businesses, and I only read in the bathroom. So I watch PBS.

PBS is a font of information. The night before last PBS told of the British/France conspiracy that had the Israel army make a fake raid on the Suez Canal. It starred Anthony Eden.

The Israel fake, which ended 40 miles from the canal, allowed England and France to invade Egypt under the guise of preserving the peace.

The French designed this marvelous plan. The agreement was supposed to be secret and Eden was upset when he learned that the agreement had been put in writing with British and French signatories. Well, what did he expect? That was not the White House Cartel.

The British and French had not liked it when Nasser stole their canal. Nasser needed the money generated by the manmade ditch to pay for his new dam. The United States had decided not to pay for the dam right in the middle of things. What could Nasser do? (See http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5270/index2.htm.)

First the British decided that Egypt could not manage the dam. They pulled their pilots and send a zillion ships to overload canal traffic. They knew that no ship could make it through the canal without British pilots especially if the traffic was heavy.

The band of men that Nasser had manage canal operations had to make a decision. They appointed a trainee to guide the ships through the canal.

The canal is not exactly the Mississippi River. It's a manmade ditch designed for the passing of ships. All they had to do was watch for dead camels. The pilot gave this order to the captain of the first ship. He said, "Go down the middle and try not to hit the banks."

The captain, like the captains of the other ships waiting in line, probably had been through the canal a zillion times. He told the helmsman to take the ship through the canal and then went to the mess for a cup of tea. (I made up the last part of this. Well, I made up a lot of it.)

The resumption of normal canal traffic made Anthony Eden angry. (See http://www.mdlg05075.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/eden.htm.) He needed to start a war.

The French had the big idea on how to that. Actually, the war was caused by BAD INTELLEGENCE. (Eden decided that Russia was involved in Egypt's action. It turns out that Nasser didn't bother to tell the Russians what he was up to. The French and British didn't tell Eisenhower what they were up to either. )

Eden's going into Egypt was a smashing success.

They got smashed by successful angry Egyptians.

Nikita Khrushchev looked up from his war maps when he heard the war news. He said, "Can't a guy plan how to put down an uprising without being disturbed? What the hell is Nasser doing anyway? He knows I've got Hungary to deal with. Tell those British and French weasels that I'll blow their butts off with hydrogen bombs if they don't get the hell out of there.” (Well, he didn't say those exact words. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Kruschev.)

Eisenhower was furious. He told Eden to get the hell out of Egypt befo

re he really got mad. I guess you've seen a dog run with its tail between its legs. The British Army headed right back to England (to shoot Anthony Eden).

These are the benefits of the war: Nasser got his canal, Russia paid for the dam, and Anthony Eden disappeared to Jamaica. (Well, he did come back to resign. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/9/newsid_2800000/2800833.stm)

I'm sure that the Dodo Bird Twins, Tony and George, studied this war. That's probably how they learned how to start Bush War II.

During Bush War I, Dick Cheney decided that it was less expensive to have corporations supply support to the armed forces than to have the military do it.

This got Halliburton its big start in this field.

Cheney resigned and left government to make money at Halliburton.

As soon as Bush War II could be started, Halliburton and its subsidiary got some huge contracts. If you don't believe that Dick Cheney has benefited from this, his daughter is going strait to please her parents.

That's how we get to the $20.00 meal (if you can remember back that far).

A military spokesman was asked how much a Halliburton meal cost the military.

The reporter had tried this on a Halliburton spokesman who said that he didn't have the slightest idea.

Now $20.00 x 3 meals / day x 365 days a year is $21,900.00 for every Tom, Dick, and Harry on that particular Halliburton complex. (Population: one zillion.)

I think we should fire Halliburton and hire McDonalds. Then the troops wouldn't have to go to the McDonalds at the Halliburton complex to get what they want to eat.

I know this is true. Halliburton says that much of the food is not eaten which adds to the cost.

To this I say, "Don't cook so damned much food! The troops don't like it!”

I never had a $20.00 dollar meal in Korea unless that would be the equivalent for the early Thanksgiving Dinner we were served before going on the line.

Mostly, we ate C-Ration.

Well, there was some left over C-Rations because most of us only wanted the fruit, the candy, the sausage patties, and the beans and franks. (Many of us have had bypass surgery and some, like me, valve replacement.)

The rest of the C-Ration we gave to the original Halliburton type of employees, Korean boys (who became good friends) that lugged up the mountain our C-rations, ammunition, water, and whatever we really had to have.

They also transported our dead.

Did anyone at the Pentagon ask the Koreans for a bid?

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