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To: Bilow who wrote (28239)	5/4/2002 5:07:11 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

re Iraq's non-involvement if there were some justice in these things, the people who blathered on and on about Iraq's involvement in the 9/11 attacks (Woolsey, Mylroie, Safire, practically every neocon on the planet) would pay a significant price in terms of credibility now that their pet theory has been debunked. (Even the supposed meeting of Atta with an Iraqi agent in Prague now seems to have been a case of mistaken identity.) Yet they haven't, because popular debate has few intellectual standards and they are shameless enough to simply move on to the next topic without comment. Well, at least the smart ones are. The Weekly Standard, in contrast, just had a major piece trying to argue that foreigners, read Iraq, were behind the anthrax mailings, something that will very likely be debunked for good fairly soon.... ctb/A@pssst:SaddamkilledVinceFoster,passiton.com

To: Bilow who wrote (28239)	5/4/2002 2:53:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

I would be willing to hazard a guess that the Palestinian government, no matter what it does, cannot stop all suicide bombers. In this case, you would be right -- because they don't want to stop them. How many times have I heard that Israel has its own Jewish extremists, every bit as extreme as Hamas? Well, how many Baruch Goldsteins have been running around in the last two years shooting up mosques? By your logic, very many, since the technology of carrying an Uzi is simple and widely available in Israel, so you must hazard a guess that the Israeli government cannot stop all of the would-be shooters, no matter what it does. Yet somehow, Israel has stopped all the would-be shooters. Could it be that we are really talking about willingness, not capability?