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To: GST who wrote (122699)	1/3/2004 4:41:42 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

What makes you think we are saving innocent lives? The mass graves in Iraq and Afghanistan. The torture and rape victims in Iraq and Afghanistan. 3000 dead in NYC.

To: GST who wrote (122699)	1/3/2004 9:39:17 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<What makes you think we are saving innocent lives?> The War Party gets a warm and fuzzy feeling about themselves, when they tell each other they are Bearing The White Man's Burden. Bringing the light of civilization to the savages.

To: GST who wrote (122699)	1/3/2004 11:04:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Has Al Qaeda managed another September 11th-style attack? Do you think they meant to stop with just one? That's not what they say, they keep predicting big attacks. They predicted one last July. They predicted one on Christmas. Now they say “Al Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days. Threat on the Internet. Countdown begins.” debka.com Since the one inescapable fact is that they did do September 11th, a huge operation that took five years to plan, I think you have to credit the total absence of a credible folllowup as "saving innocent lives" on the part of those agencies that stopped it.