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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (41779)	9/3/2002 4:05:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't mean debatable, I mean just plain wrong. Specifically...? Just off the top of my head, Wanniski says 1. Saddam never gassed the Kurds. The evidence for this -- photos, testimony gathered by Human Rights Watch, is overwhelming. Wanniski hides behind the lack of mass graves -- which are only lacking because Saddam still controls that ground, so nobody can go dig them up. 2. There were 200,000 Jews in Iraq in 1967, and they were ok. There were 20,000, forbidden to leave, in awful conditions. 3. Israel has been dominated by the desire for Greater Israel, and has never seriously offered land back. Contradicted by many public and secret offers -- all but Jerusalem in 1967, the Sinai in 1979 to Egypt, the West Bank (sans J'lem) to Jordan in 1979 (King Hussein was chicken). But Israel wanted something back -- recognition and peace -- that the Arabs wouldn't give. Barak tried really hard to give back the Golan and get peace with Syria. Just as well he didn't succeed, considering Bashar Assad's character. Read the quote from Barron's.