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To: SirRealist who wrote (22039)	3/23/2002 3:01:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Better late than never, I suppose. At the time of the Karine A's capture, the Times was printing every State Department 'doubt' that the ship had anything to do with Arafat. They also missed the change in the Bush administrations's attitude to Arafat, which is now clear to them in hindsight.

To: SirRealist who wrote (22039)	3/23/2002 4:48:59 PM
From: Doc Bones	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Which is more dangerous to the U.S. - Iraq or Iran? Iran has 3 times the population (75 million to 25 million.) Seymour Hersh's piece in the New Yorker detailed Iran's extensive nuclear weapons program, something Israeli intelligence has been explaining to Washington for some time. Iran is not under the embargo and extraordinary pressure that Iraq is, hasn't suffered a recent crushing military defeat. Iran seems to be controlled by muslim fundamentalists, and was our bitterest enemy in the Middle East for a long time, against whom we heavily backed Iraq, ignoring Saddam's faults. If Iran got control of the Shiite area of Iraq, with most of Iraq's oil fields, they would be the superpower of the Muslim Middle East. Doc