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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118448)	11/3/2003 9:23:52 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, I have heard the saying. It could be used the other way round too--Al Qaeda and the US are enemies; Saddam and Al Qaeda are enemies; therefore, Saddam and the US can be friends. Or at least friend-like. As friend like as you can be while one of the parties is bombing pretty much whatever they want in the country of the other party as well as trying to maintain a blockade. The focus should have been and should be on Al Qaeda. Yes, I'veheard about the training camp at Salman Pak, but as with many stories coming out of Iraq the details always became rather murky and contradictory. The stories, as usual with these things, were, shall we say, "suggestive," never actually saying anything definitive but implying all hell. We were in a position to bomb the shit out of anything we wanted to in Iraq, or of spying on anything above ground larger than a matchbook (or so we are told by our spy geniuses). Everything is whispered innuendo, Nadine, whispered with just the right tone of urgency, but if you ever try to pin anyone down, forget about it. They want to be able to scream later on, we didn't lie about anything, we never said Saddam was imminent threat, we never said that Saddam actually had a nuclear program, but are you saying we should have waited until he did?! Gaad, you and your ilk would be nuclear toast by now if it weren't for us realists killing all the bad guys despite your screeches.