07/01/00 Vexer Amalgamated Affiliated Industries, Inc. is pleased to kick off this year's annual Summer of Strife campaign! Help us celebrate by starting or escalating a conflict in your country today! Sadly, many countries are making progress in overcoming years, or in some cases - hundreds of years of cultural animosity by conducting negotiations to work out their differences - gasp - peacefully! We all know what prolonged peace can do to the balance sheet. Yet we remain hopeful. For example, we are proud to say that we are providing arms and technical support to both sides of the current conflict in Burundi. Despite recent hopes of a peaceful resolution to this civil war, VAAII believes this year could bring a beneficial escalation in hostilities, with all the resultant revenue gains from re-arming the warring factions. Additionally, there is the possibility of the conflict spreading beyond the borders of this small African country to the continent at large. In many cases all that's required is a small flash point to jump start a violent and highly profitable war! A simple assassination may be all that's needed to start the next big conflict! Consider the fruits of our Summer of Strife 1990 campaign, which successfully spawned our most profitable and popular war to date, the Persian Gulf War. VAAII's Baghdad office provided arms, logistical and moral support, as well as complimentary men's hair styling gel to the Iraqi army. Minimal prompting was needed to convince Saddam to invade his small and weak neighbor, Kuwait. Of course we all know the glorious outcome. One of our greatest presidents, George Bush, armed with VAAII's latest technology, and with permission from God, kicked Saddam out of Kuwait. The final numbers: $871 million of VAAII's better weaponry faced off against $4.3 billion of VAAII's best weaponry in a showdown in the desert. In the end, over $2.9 billion of our products were destroyed, with another $651 million needing replacement parts! A better ending to this story couldn't have been written. That was ten years ago. What can we do during Summer of Strife 2000? The clear choice is throw all our weight behind George W. Bush's presidential campaign. The last eight years of peace and quiet have really taken a toll on our military industrial complex. We have had to turn our attention toward consumer hair care products as a result. We are doing well, but it's just so much more profitable to sell the Army a bottle of styling gel for $41 than to sell it to a civilian for $4. Do the math. Do the right thing and support George W.