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To: JakeStraw who wrote (490172)	11/10/2003 5:34:20 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769670

The Iraq -- Al Qaeda Connections Message 19463924; Most of the links that article points out have either been debunked and proven to be a lot less active then some have suggested. For an example, Ansar al-Islam, the Iraqi terrorist group connected to al Qaeda, was all but moribund before Saddam's fall because Saddam would round them up periodically. However, since Saddam's fall, they have grown in strength and probably constitute the bulk of the foreign insurgents in Iraq. However, even if I didn't know all that, I would doubt just about anything this gov't says anymore re. Iraq. I no longer trust them to do the right thing.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (490172)	11/10/2003 5:43:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Former National Security Advisor Z. Brezinski's remarks from the New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference prospect.org <font color=brown> "Ladies and gentlemen, forty years ago almost to the day an important Presidential emissary was sent abroad by a beleaguered President of the United States. The United States was facing the prospect of nuclear war. These were the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Several emissaries went to our principal allies. One of them was a tough-minded former Secretary of State, Dean Acheson whose mission was to brief President De Gaulle and to solicit French support in what could be a nuclear war involving not just the United States and the Soviet Union but the entire NATO Alliance and the Warsaw Pact. The former Secretary of State briefed the French President and then said to him at the end of the briefing, I would now like to show you the evidence, the photographs that we have of Soviet missiles armed with nuclear weapons. The French President responded by saying, I do not wish to see the photographs. The word of the President of the United States is good enough for me. Please tell him that France stands with America. Would any foreign leader today react the same way to an American emissary who would go abroad and say that country X is armed with weapons of mass destruction which threaten the United States? There's food for thought in that question. Fifty-three years ago, almost the same month following the Soviet-sponsored assault by North Korea on South Korea, the Soviet Union boycotted a proposed resolution in the U.N. Security Council for a collective response to that act. That left the Soviet Union alone in opposition, stamping it as a global pariah. In the last three weeks there were two votes on the subject of the Middle East in the General Assembly of the United Nations. In one of them the vote was 133 to four. In the other one the vote was 141 to 4, and the four included the United States, Israel, Marshall Islands and Micronesia. All of our NATO allies voted with the majority including Great Britain, including the so-called new allies in Europe -- in fact almost all of the EU -- and Japan. I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena -- the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation."