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To: Neocon who wrote (126032)	3/12/2004 6:13:31 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "I am merely struck with the scurrilous irrelevancy of bringing up Holocaust denial ..." My point in bringing it up was to point out the common failure in logic: *Just because someone has no motive for doing something is not significant evidence that they didn't do it.* As to why you bring up "scurrilous", my guess is that you use these kinds of words to describe anything that doesn't agree with your preconceived notions. -- Carl

To: Neocon who wrote (126032)	3/12/2004 7:47:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am merely struck with the scurrilous irrelevancy of bringing up Holocaust denial as if it were somehow analogous to what Nadine was doing. I do not read her as denying the possibility, but of trying to assess probabilities with little to go on........ Just so. So the US has no motive to commit the crime, and there is no evidence that a crime was committed, but we-know-who will choose to believe in the crime anyway. Whereas Hitler spent 20 years spelling out his motives and acting on them, and left behind a mountain of evidence (did you know that the German railways issued 11 million one-way tickets for the victims of the Holocaust?), but then again, there are those who claim there was no motive and no evidence, or not much, anyway. A few illegal executions, to be sure. Facts are such inconvenient things, lets just ignore them.