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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (89853)	4/4/2003 4:16:19 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 281500

Frankly I don't know which of these "Nightmares" is worst: The "Report on the Transition to Democracy in Iraq" includes one small item that should attract the attention of many people outside the American and British governments. The report calls for educational reform on the model of de-Nazification — for new textbooks and for the use of computers and the Internet in education. And the exiles added an intriguing point: "All independent education institutions that had previously existed in Iraq, such as the British Council, the American Jesuits, Alliance Française should be encouraged to resume their activities." 0r Poised behind the troops, waiting for a signal that Iraq is safe enough for them to operate in, are the evangelical Christians - carrying food in one hand and the Bible in the other. Sun Tzu, You and Carl were/are so wrong. <g> The problem in Iraq wasn't the decision to go to war. The problem will be the decision to "stop" the war and allow these abject bungholes to make the locals yearn for the return of "Saddam the Horrible". 0\|0

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (89853)	4/4/2003 4:28:50 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 281500

That can't be true! It is outlandish, to say the least.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (89853)	4/4/2003 10:00:46 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It could only happen with an American invasion. Poised behind the troops, waiting for a signal that Iraq is safe enough for them to operate in, are the evangelical Christians - carrying food in one hand and the Bible in the other. All the groups, generously funded by American churchgoers, are likely to do a magnificent job in offering water, food, medical help and comfort to a traumatised population. But they are causing alarm among Muslims, who fear vulnerable Iraqis will be cajoled into conversion, and Christians, some of whom warn that the missionaries will be prime targets in an unpacified Iraq. Muslim worries have been heightened because the man leading the charge into Iraq is the Rev Franklin Graham, who delivered the invocation at President Bush's inauguration, the son of Billy Graham and a fierce critic of Islam. He is on record as calling it a "wicked, violent" religion, with a God different from that of Christianity. "The two are different as lightness and darkness," he wrote. My Muslim contacts have been complaining about this for the past two weeks. Seems to be widely believed and promotes the idea that this is the start of a 'War on Islam' -- just what we need... --fl