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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (171)	9/17/2001 6:16:25 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 281500

I do think he's on the right track. I said to my friend who worked at uN for last 40 years, today, "Why did we sell arms & nukes to Bin Laden, & give biowarfare & nukes to Iraq? I know we thought we needed these then-middelmen in the Cold War, but why did we give them our weapons of destruction? We couldn't possibly have been so naive to think they wouldn't turn on us some day--affiliations and situations always change. Couldnt' we have just given them $?" She said to me that I was very naive. (HARUMPH!) She said, "Munitions makers don't care about the distant future. We made a LOT of $ selling those things. We are the major manufacturer of munitions in the world. It is big business for us." So back then it looked pretty good--we got to produce & sell our crap, and seemingly control areas of conflict in the Cold War. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...