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To: GST who wrote (120844)	12/2/2003 5:22:43 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

up to and including favoring a "transfer of power" that delivers Iraq to Chalabi rather than impose the rigors of free elections which would lead to loss of American control and loss of Iraqi exile control of Iraq in a heartbeat GST, can't you tell how silly you sound? this is "evidence"? The Iraqis have been utterly and completely traumatized by one of the most evil and murderous dictatorships on earth for 30 years - anybody who wasn't utterly passive is either dead or in exile - and you're complaining because the neocons think Chalabi might usefully play a part in reconstructing a government? Why shouldn't the 4 million strong Iraqi exile community play a role in reconstruction? I should hope they would. Calling an election now would be like calling an election in July 45 in the ruins of Berlin. None of the allies thought of it, but that hardly meant that the western allies didn't intend for West Germany to become a democracy. While playing up non-evidence that Chalabi is somehow proof of non-democratic intent, you airily dismiss all evidence of what Saddam actually did the for the last twelve years. WMD? Can't find em, so they never were - Saddam threw out the inspectors in 1998 and cost himself 200 billion in sanctions just 'cause he felt like it. Al Qaeda connection? You won't believe any evidence. I'm surprised you're not claiming that Saddam never was, either. Are you sure Bush didn't make him up, too? After all, we can't find him - QED, apparently.