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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159325)	3/20/2005 2:26:09 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (2) of 281500

" Even Saddam never expressed any intention to wipe Iran off the map. His stated intentions were to sieze some oil producing regions on the border. ".. Not at all Nadine. Saddam attacked Iran over long argued disputes of two islands and the fact that Iran was broadcasting Islamic propaganda into Iraq inciting an ousting of his government, to be replaced by a theocracy.All this was lost in the bogus " intelligence failure " leading up to the recent Iraq invasion. I wonder why? " would that have pleased you better? I doubt it. "".. Now now now...Nadine...don't git yer k-nickers in a k-not and start down this silly road of wishing to see Israel hurt again. Ben there -- done that -- no one buys it. AND FOR CLARITY : Both Yitzak Rabin and Menachem Begin were to contradict the common belief that the 1967 war was a defensive attack on the part of Israel. Both claimed publicly that Israel knew Nasser was not planning to attack. His troop movements were the pretext for a long planned Israeli move to gain more territory. Rabin was quoted in Le Monde, February 29, 1968, as saying, "I do not think Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to the Sinai in May [1967] would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it." On August 8, 1982, Prime Minister Begin made a speech saying, "In June, 1967, we again had a choice. the Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him" (New York Times, August 21, 1982). That is what I was referring to Nadine... E'M'

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