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To: elpolvo who wrote (9476)	1/21/2002 3:14:45 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

No. I agree. ...and I think you agree to the point I was making. Those images of the prisoners are following the images of endless bombing. This should really galvanize the people willing to fight us. It may help create the holy war that Osama and perhaps our gov't wants.

To: elpolvo who wrote (9476)	1/21/2002 3:34:29 PM
From: Clappy	Respond to of 104155

I just reread my earlier post. I didn't do a good job of communicating my thought. What I meant was: There must be some sort of reason why they (or gov't) would publicly humiliate those prisoners. The motive wasn't just to do it show the terrorists of the world that this is what will happen. It was more than that. Was it to enrage many of the Islamic groups? Enrage them to a point where they would want to strike again soon? I think it could be possible. Or maybe there is some other reason that I haven't figured out yet. Why fan the flames? Aren't we supposed to be trying to prevent a holy war? Instead we piss them off even further until they blow up something else of ours. Would this then allow us to infiltrate another region of the Mid East that we want to be in for whatever strategic reasons? In my earlier post, instead of the word "we", I should have written "our gov't". Does that confuse things even more or make it better? -Clappy