One anslyst described the results (of the third quarter of last year for Exxon Mobil) as "the most profitable quarter ever by any public company."

"In the last hours of trading on the 16th, defense stocks spiraled;oil and energy stocks boomed following news that Iraq's industry might be impaired. The value of Exxon, Chevron, and Texaco stocks shot up. Harken Energy Company--in which George W. Bush served as company director and corporate consultant before entering politics-gained 5.4% by the end of trading. harken just happens to be a key player in Colombian oil (with a multi-billion dollar US military aid package under 'Plan Colombia" on hand to protect its investments). Harken Energy CEO Mikel Faulkner is a former business associate of George W." Michel Chossudovsky, Profesor of Economics, University of Ottawa

"The death toll along California's border with Mexico has reached 567, according to the American Friends Service Committee...Gatekeeper is one of the four blockades set up along the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border since 1993. The operations have turned the Border Patrol, now more than 8,000 agents strong, into the largest federal police force." Tim Dunn, journalist

"We did talk about power(George Bush and vincente Fox),the generation of power--the possibility as to whether or not in Baja, for example, more power could be added to the Western grid," Bush said. "It's an obvious opportunity, if possible." Dubya

"We exchanged ideas about safe and orderly migration, a policy that respects individuals on both sides of the border"...They (Bush and Fox) believe that people need to be treated humanly. They believe that people need to be able to have the fruits of their labor, and they believe that the economic benefits to both countries need to be recognized." Condoleeza Rice

"Kuchma is trying to make a coup to gain absolute power."...he is acting on nehalf of powerful private groups that support him. Since Kuchma came to office, Ukraine has gotten poorer but his friends have gotten rich. They now want to get even richer by selling shares in land and grabbing control of basic industries like steel, petrochemicals and even oil and gas, whcih is now forbidden to be privatized." Socialist party leader Oleksandr Moroz

"Such escalation of the US-UK aggression coincides with the escalation of Zionist aggression on the Palestinian people, in a yet another evidence that the United States and Zionism are but one state on agggression against the Arab and all world peoples." Foreign Minister of Iraq, Mohammed Sa'eed as-Sahaf