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To: GST who wrote (112047)	8/20/2003 12:45:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It was Saddam who kept Al Qaeda out- since he had no sympathy with their aims of a Muslim Caliphate. Now that he is gone there is a vacuum in iraq that the US is not bully enough to fill, but Al Qaeda, and other organizations like them- no doubt a sort of home grown Iraqi Taliban- will be happy to fill this vacuum. We are indeed the fly- caught between a rock (our inability to leave Iraq without having the place blow up) and a hard place (our inability to stay because of spiraling costs and an increasingly organized and hostile resistance). It will be interesting to see just how badly US gets dreams get mashed in Iraq.

To: GST who wrote (112047)	8/20/2003 1:10:39 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Your eagerness to send young American men and women to die in this "trap" is disheartening. If my choice is to face Al Qaida with soldiers in Iraq or with civilians in New York, Iraq is better. Again, you argue as if the alternative to doing what we are doing was peace & quiet all over the world, because Al Qaida is not a real enemy, just a nuisance that the FBI could handle easily. I disagree with this rosy assessment.