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To: MSI who wrote (16394)	11/16/2003 8:11:36 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Clark said many things on Meet the Press, but I found this interesting: "The Bush administration made a choice early in the war on terror to go after states rather than going after terrorists. They wanted to use the conventional power of the United States armed forces to take down states. "And Don Rumsfeld's still talking about it. As though these states were central to the problem of terrorism. And they aren't. The problem is when you take them down, you are left with trying to pick up the pieces, as is happening in Iraq. Attacking Iraq has done almost nothing to deal with the problem of Al Queada. In fact, if you asked Osama bin Laden what would you like us to do to play into his hands, he would have said, well, why don't you invade an Arab country?" "He would have preferred we invade Saudi Arabia, of course that would have really mobilized opinion. But if you can't do that, Iraq's a pretty close second... It is a side show for our war on terror."