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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (384861)	4/3/2003 11:43:13 AM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Wow... Your logic is so skewed, it isn't worth refuting.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (384861)	4/3/2003 11:46:07 AM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

If it was the truth, wouldn't it be reported? That blood money thing has never been verified. It's another part of the overall misinformation campaign.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (384861)	4/3/2003 12:10:01 PM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Ok fine. Let's deconstruct your argument. 1. Well Saddam was giving 25,000 cash to the families of suicide bombers who attacked and killed Israeli's. Why was that never reported in the news - perhaps because it was never confirmed that any of the families recieved any money at all? 2. We were always left believing they were devoted religious fanatics and freedom fighters with a noble cause by the news in the US. - I don't know what news you watch, but suicide bombers are always portrayed as psycho's with no respect for human life by the media. 3. But now we hear they were doing it for the money. - You honestly believe that a palestinian suicide bomber would blow himself up on the off chance that his surviving family might collect $25K from Saddam? C'mon. 4. And Saddam was paying for terrorist attacks on Israel. - Paying for terrorist attacks on Israel? Even if what you claim about him giving money to surviving families is true, which I doubt, that doesn't translate into "paying for terrorist attacks on Israel" (nice try though). 5. Why not pay someone to sprinkle a biological agent as they walked through a crowded market? -Sprinkle a biological agent? Riiggght, it's just that simple. It is far more effective to strap explosives to your belt. 6. Or use drones flying over. It could have been done and it was reported he was working on that. Drones. -Yeahh, yeahh Drones!!.. that's the ticket! Oh brother. Y'know, I heard reports that Saddam had financed the tooth fairy to sprinkle anthrax under the pillows of Israeli children as they slept. 7. Many here are too young to remember when the Palestinians were not allowed to go to other countries after the wars with Israel and they wanted to leave. They were held hostage in camps for political reasons and used as pawns in a power struggle in the middle east. There'd be no Palestinian problem now if it weren't for the Arabs who created it. - This is the only comment of any value in your entire post. All of the Arab countries who show such sympathy for the palestinian "cause" are the same countries who have shunned the palestinian people for decades.