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To: kumar who wrote (66674)	1/18/2003 7:26:30 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Respond to of 281500

Message 18457141 Tekboy on Iraq and WTC I in 1993. It seems highly likely. If you are looking for irrefuteable proof then you and I know you are looking for something which cannot be found. We still don't know with certainty many items where many can believe without a reasonable doubt of guilt or innocence. I'd suggest you consider the guilt or innocence of OJ. To many in America, they will swear that he was guilty, while others will believe that 'if the glove don't fit, you can't commit'. I suspect you and I are on different sides of that issue as well. I think the real issue is one of trust. I generally trust that the US government is telling me the truth and dissbelieve it reluctantly. I believe that it really does operate on the assumptions "of the people, by the people, for the people". I also believe that many other governments around the world don't know how to tell the truth. In that camp, I would place Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, among a very long list. Every day, I see many Anti-War people use articles by these lying organizations in efforts to prove how the US Government is lying to us and assigning all kinds of wild allegations about mysterious alterior motives to US policy. To me the policy is simple. There are state sponsors of terror. They train it, supply it, and FUND it. Of the latter there is no doubt. Links to the training and supplying also seem very credible to me. Iraq is an example of such a country. I believe US policy is not about oil, about democracy directly, or about WMD either. It is about sending a clear and concise message that state sponsors of terror will be eliminated. This is a laudable goal. If they succeed, other state sponsor governments will be 'on notice' of what can happen if they continue. Believe me, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakestan are watching very closely. Libya may have already learned the lesson. If these governments, as a result of a regime change in Iraq learn to diminish support for terror, the cost to the US for this effort will have been WELL WORTH THE PRICE.