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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (44164)	9/15/2002 4:31:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are many reasons why we shouldn't attack Iraq openly. Powell, Schwartzceft, Scowcroft and many other Generals agree that it would be a mistake You clearly haven't been listening to Powell lately. Even the others only say, don't do it right now, finish Al Qaeda first. I also believe that an attack will bring upon us a wave of increased attacks...................my example is Israel...........no country has retaliated harder against terrorism and with more force and they are the country with the most attacks.............if anything is a testimony that the use of force does not work..........it's Israel. Before Oslo, the Israelis used force against terrorism. During Oslo, they negotiated with terrorists. More Israelis died from terrorism during 1993 - 2002 than died in the 25 years prior to Oslo. The wave of attacks correlated with diplomacy, not force! There was a simple reason for this - Arafat regards terrorism as diplomacy by other means. The number of Israeli deaths reached a crescendo in March 2002, over 100 in one month. Since then Israel has used force in earnest and the number of Israeli dead has been steadily dropping. Far from inciting a great wave of attacks, there have been no successful attacks for two months now. The Palestinians are even starting to reevaluate their strategy and to move towards reform and the end of Arafat's one-man rule. In short, the evidence does not support your conclusions.