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To: JohnM who wrote (107408)	7/23/2003 12:45:07 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Didnt they scale back because of US pressure---chicken/egg thing, i think. And on the sidelines how can we know for sure who made the overtures and who rejected them? Guys like Hersh and Jacob(see his critique of Pollack) blame the US first all the time about everything. It could be that we did make overtures that were rejected, no? mike

To: JohnM who wrote (107408)	7/23/2003 12:48:41 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He [Hersh] argues that the CIA argues that after 9-11 Syria and Iraq and Iran scaled down their commitments to ME terrorist groups. That was a window of opportunity which the Bush folk missed. Oh, yes. Sure. Sensationalistic, fuzzy-wuzzy Sy Hersh, glasses akimbo, hair in orbit, bottle-in-the-bottom-desk- drawer, delusions of past grandeur in his rear-view mirror, is going to be provided this kind of sensitive information by the CIA so that he possibly skewer it? Don't for a second think the CIA would let Dracula Hersh into its blood bank. All I can say, is PUHHHLEEEZE! More BS from Hersh. If true, the information supports Perle's idea that a good demonstration of military power has a beneficial effect. They didn't want to see happen to them what was happening to the Taliban. The Iraqis, I thought, were never a problem, John. Containment was working and all that, no? ;) And, uh, by the way, how about the Saudis, where the real money for terror came from? C2@didn'tjustfalloffthetomatotruck.com