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To: KLP who wrote (93829)	4/17/2003 3:02:46 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

the Government couldn't stop Jim McDermott et al (sponsored by the Council of Churches) from going to Iraq before the war, either....and they certainly aren't "evangelic" groups.... And didn't Shawn Penn go too? Hardly a useful analogy. The US was not in control of Iraq at that time. It is in control of Iraq now. The administration did not have direct influence over the NCC or Sean Penn; it does have direct influence on Graham. As I said before, a phone call could settle the situation, if some people weren't afraid of upsetting the fundamentalists. The question has nothing at all to do with religious freedom, and discussion of it should not intrude on that territory. It's a purely practical issue: there are enough disruptive influences at work in Iraq, and enough conflicts to be resolve, that it would be downright silly to introduce one more. If things stabilize in Iraq, sure, let 'em go. Until they do, they should stay out.