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To: GST who wrote (120819)	12/2/2003 11:30:37 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

that there was only one security-related argument to invade Iraq -- and that is to take pressure off Israel I would answer that this is also a myopic focus with an incorrect conclusion. Any result on Israel would be indirect and long range, as Iraq was only one of the countries paying suicide bombers; Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all more direct threats to Israel, as they are also for international terrorism. Any larger view must conclude that the US, Turkey and Israel are allies on one side of a Terror War, and that Al Qaeda, its franchises, and the states that support them and preach this crazy jihadism, in particular, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Pakistan are on the other - though in the case of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan you can argue that they are fighting on both sides.