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To: JohnM who wrote (41775)	9/3/2002 3:55:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There is great detail in this short piece Only problem is, so much of Wanniski's great detail is total crap. How can you be helped when so much of what he says is simply contrary to fact? I don't mean debatable, I mean just plain wrong.

To: JohnM who wrote (41775)	9/3/2002 5:32:50 PM
From: Sea Otter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Too many howlers. Unfortunately Wanninski loses his already-low credibility with some real howlers. - Saddam never used poison gas? Tell that to a few hundred thousand dead Kurds and Iranians. Fully documented by the UN and a number of NGOs - just as fully documented as the jewish holocaust (which Wanniski probably also denies). - Use Farrahken as "an embassy to Islam"? Huh, does Wanninski even know that Farrahken is not even a muslim and is, in fact, considered a infidel weirdo by the Islamic world? (Nation Of Islam isn't Islamic - it's simply a cult that appropriated the words Islam and Allah. Try finding their notions of race war and black superiority in the Qu'ran. ). Talk about not even getting the most basic facts right! When someone is that far off base at the start, the rest of his argument loses a certain impact.