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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110108)	8/5/2003 7:00:14 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

The Bush Administration is in very bad need of a reason to be fighting in Iraq -- al Qaida provides the best possible excuse. If al Qaida can be alleged to be coming into Iraq to fight, then Iraq becomes central to the war on terror -- or at least central to the PR spin to make it appear that way. Brace yourself for a wave of shameless misinformation.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (110108)	8/5/2003 8:14:51 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

This is what you wrote: "RAMADI, Iraq (AP) -- Senior American officials are sending a message that violence against U.S. soldiers in Iraq is increasingly the work of foreign fighters -- by implication, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. This sounds like a false dichotomy, when we know we still have Uday's fedayeen - mostly Syrian and Palestinian imports - running around loose." This is your explanation of the false dichotomy: "The false dichotomy is partitioning all anti-American fighters into either Iraqi Ba'athists or foreign Al Qaida. There are other categories as well. Pretty esoteric.