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To: greenspirit who wrote (126915)	3/22/2004 7:22:24 AM
From: blue red	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

What "facts" and "evidence". The assumption one would have to make in determining something like that would be akin to saying we knew everything which was going on behind closed doors and in the secret society of a madman. I only know the conclusions of American intelligence in Iraq since the war. There is a letter from Saddam warning someone not to cooperate with Al Qaeda. There are the statements of former associates in interviews about his suspicions of religious factions. Remember, he was a secular leader and always had to fear religious rebellion. There is some kind of letter from Osama or another Al Qaeda leader indicating distrust of Saddam because of his secularism. I wasn't trying to memorize such reports when I read them, and can't give you better specifics. My usual sources are the Wash. Post, the NYT, the Financial Times, and similar publications. Saddam was not a madman, by the way. He was a bad man, but he was quite capable of seeing his own interest, which included doing nothing that would provoke the US into an invasion. That's why he had Iraq's WMDs destroyed in the early 90's. However, if you don't believe in evidence, that means you have no basis whatsoever for your fantasies. That, after all, is what I indicated to you. We're in agreement. All that's left is whether it's responsible to post pure imaginings.