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To: John Carragher who wrote (119108)	11/10/2003 6:55:06 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

this bombing is going to unify Saudi into better cooperation with U.S. About time.. But I think we backed them into a corner by taking over Iraq. They had to take sides against the terrorists because they knew that US army might come after them next if they continued to play footsie with the militants.. So the US has forced the issue between the Saudis and militants. Now they are possibly fighting a quasi civil war against the militants in their own society. So I wonder if Al-Qaeda members will feel a greater pull toward killing Americans, or killing Saudis? Hawk

To: John Carragher who wrote (119108)	11/10/2003 8:56:47 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Are you asking if civil war in Iraq and an ever-expanding regional war in the middle east will make me happy? The answer is "no". I do not seek an endless war -- an endless regional bloodbath. I do not believe most Americans seek an endless regional bloodbath. And I do not think it is in our national security interests to see an endless regional bloodbath.

To: John Carragher who wrote (119108)	11/11/2003 7:34:02 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Political terrorism By Oliver North November 09, 2003 ...." Nearly all responsible politicians agree that our intelligence community desperately needs better ways of penetrating radical Islamist terror cells. Even those running for office acknowledge we are in a war in which young Americans are dying — a war in which the lack of good intelligence is our greatest liability. Therefore, it seems the primary responsibility of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence should be to discern what needs "fixing" within our intelligence community and determine with urgency what resources are needed for those improvements. After all, the lives of young Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq — as well as the safety of U.S. citizens at home hang in the balance. But this memorandum reveals that these goals are not even being considered by eight of the 17 members of the Senate's Intelligence Committee. The Democrats who sit on one of the most sensitive and important bodies in our government have apparently decided that gathering, assessing and analyzing intelligence is less important than booting this president from office. "Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq," the memo states. In short, they have abandoned their responsibilities to our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and countrymen and decided instead, to wage war against the president. ".... Full article >>>> washtimes.com