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To: NightOwl who wrote (127379)	3/26/2004 10:48:29 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) of 281500

But the obvious fact is that we don't know what events would have materialized had we acted differently prior to 9/11. And likewise we cannot predict the future conduct of a Saddam/Baathist regime in Iraq had it been allowed to continue. All we know with certainty is that history will pay us more visits. Hoooold on, buster. But we can make a fair guess, with a good chance of probabilistic accuracy. We can surmise that since the fully-funded means, plans, methods, and operatives were in place, probably since the time of the Clinton Administration, 9/11 would have probably gone forward as planned. Isn't this the nub of the question? All the political BS in the world doesn't change that fact. Unless and until someone shows me proof that there was something that either Administration could have specifically done to break the chain of cause and effect leading from the entry into the US of the terrorists to the time they hijacked the planes, I will consider the discussion to be so much political folderol, palaver useful only for those who have axes to grind and no interest in the truth.

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