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To: Ilaine who wrote (37512)	8/13/2002 12:01:50 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Could you maybe clarify those costs? I suspect that he is referring to a possible Sharon/Phalangist situation arising. If we set down outside of Baghdad and let some Republican Guards, who have come over to our side, go in and fight their former comrades, their will be immediate screams of "Massacre" from the left, both domestically and foreign. They will scream this when we go in, also. The Military knows this, and will probably use more artillery than normal because of it, causing more structural damage. If you think the press got stiffed in the Gulf War, wait until this one comes. The Military knows that we have a whole pack of Journalists with dreams of becoming the new "Halberstam", etc, out of the war, just as they want to be the domestic version of Woodward and Bernstein on any Washington scandal.

To: Ilaine who wrote (37512)	8/13/2002 12:45:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

>>to the political costs of using such Israeli-like tactics Could you maybe clarify those costs? We're allowed to kill far more civilians than Israeli is. We killed, by AP estimates, about 600 Afghan civilians (certain lefties are still tossing around numbers of 4,000 or more); do you see the screams of war crimes in Brussels? I mean, the Palestinians just claimed that Israel killed that many in Jenin (without basis in fact), and the British press fell all over themselves crying about atrocities in "Jeningrand". They hardly wrote a thing about Afghanistan.