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To: michael97123 who wrote (96649)	4/28/2003 1:13:58 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Why are you blathering your particular "assumptions" ad naseum as if they are the gospel truth? Where are those "widely reported stories", anyway?

To: michael97123 who wrote (96649)	4/28/2003 1:18:29 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You are being self contradictory here. You can argue that many Iraqis who lived in Iran have come to believe in the concept of Islamic republic and want to establish it in Iraq. This is an arguable point (but it assumes they really liked what they saw in Iran). So now these "converts" are going back to their homeland, so what? What do you think Iran should do about them? But if you are saying that they are agents, that means they do whatever Iran asks of them. This is a very different position and I do not buy into it. There should be some among them, but there cannot be thousands of agents. Nor will the top leadership can be considered agents of Iran. They fight, among other things, to put themselves in power. This is no different than any other politician. Look at it this way, if I were a communist in 70s, I could be in agreement with much of what Moscow said. But that would not mean that I was their agent. It would not have been a given that if Moscow asked me to do or say something I would just do it.