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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (124564)	2/9/2004 11:07:20 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Why do I think that that memo was written by the same people (at least analogously so, and perhaps even the exact same) who wrote the script for the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador back in 1991 when she testified before a Senate committee investigating Saddam?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (124564)	2/10/2004 12:36:35 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Meantime, the Americans just intercepted a memo from Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to some Al Qaeda honcho in Iran, and he doesn't sound half so sanguine about his situation as you do. In fact: ..." (a) The memo could be forged. You're hearing it, after all, who repeatedly released false information about Iraq's WMDs, the nature of the liberation, etc.. (b) Even if the memo is real, it is, at best only the observations of one guy. How many similar conversations do you suppose that US military officers have? I bet that some of them are considerably more depressing than that. In fact, maybe you should read what is going on at SFTT. (c) And anyway, our enemies in Iraq are not Al Qaeda, it's the local resistance. It's telling that you would bother to repeat such weak evidence. Is this the best you've got? It's been only a few days since all those Kurds were blown up, presumably by Al Qaeda (or someone with Al Qaeda like tactics), so it's a bit premature to call Al Qaeda dead in Iraq. And the fact is that before the war, Al Qaeda wasn't blowing anything up in Iraq at all. Anything that goes on now in Iraq is "Bush gravy" for Al Qaeda, it wouldn't have happened without the war. -- Carl