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To: TobagoJack who wrote (40965)	11/6/2003 4:41:56 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<It was supposed to end in pizza. Pizza was the only, I repeat the ONLY alternative. That because if pizza were not the case, there would be bloody hell.>> Message 18795985; <<Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War By JAMES RISEN Published: November 6, 2003 nytimes.com ASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections. Advertisement The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy and planning, were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved. The efforts were portrayed by Iraqi officials as having the approval of President Saddam Hussein, according to interviews and documents. The overtures, after a decade of evasions and deceptions by Iraq, were ultimately rebuffed...>> Jay, I told you it was supposed to end in pizza, only the hawks wanted a Israel. They've go it.