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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MJ who wrote (654980)	11/1/2004 5:44:06 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) of 769667

MJ, the CIA provided an estimate for the number of AlQ terrorists. Their estimate was approximately a few thousand. The question remaining on the table today is: do the children of any of the 100,000 dead souls become terrorists? The answer to the question depends upon whether or not Iraq will be like Japan and Germany (where these countries were successfully rebuilt and they didn't have a pervasive belief "eye for an eye"). Or, will Iraq be a situation of future spiraling cycles of violence where "you killed my Grandpa 70 years ago so I'll kill you". My concern is we've taken a front seat in the Middle East cycle of violence without consideration to the cultural context. A couple thousand AlQ terrorists is significantly less than 100,000 new angry terrorists. I'd like to see the government in both parties (i.e. Congress) address the question: how do they see the cycle of violence ending and not being delivered to our door step in magnitudes of 50 times more than what we had experienced, given the cultural context of "eye for an eye" that exists in Iraq? I'd like Congress and Powell provide an answer to this question so we can see they are at least factoring in this huge issue. Regards, Amy J

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