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To: LLLefty who wrote (8772)	11/3/2001 4:48:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Chomsky makes a giant leap by assuming that the benevolent Khartoum regime was, indeed, distributing drugs to the needy, not just the favored military. Since I never heard any evidence of what that factory was even supposed to be making, I figured that Chomsky just pulled that 10,000 figure out of a hat. It seems to be his method, especially if he can add the magic words "we don't know because the US blocked the investigation"

To: LLLefty who wrote (8772)	11/3/2001 5:42:29 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Wow, you are quite the global strategist. For a country that is in complete shambles, a good course for rehabilitation is to destroy their primary pharmaceutical plant? I think you are thrashing about wildly in an attempt to smear Chomsky, most likely because of his views on some other topic. Reality: <<< The United States bombing "appears to have shattered the slowly evolving move towards compromise between Sudan's warring sides" and terminated promising steps toward a peace agreement to end the civil war that had left 1.5 million dead since 1981, which might have also led to "peace in Uganda and the entire Nile Basin." The attack apparently "shattered...the expected benefits of a political shift at the heart of Sudan's Islamist government" toward a "pragmatic engagement with the outside world," along with efforts to address Sudan's domestic crises," to end support for terrorism, and to reduce the influence of radical Islamists (Mark Huband, Financial Times, September 8, 1998). >>> Tom