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To: KyrosL who wrote (127595)	3/28/2004 1:53:11 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why not try to list in a systematic fashion the factual basis for your contention that the war on terror has been hindered by the war in Iraq? My sense is that the war on terror is going very well. I don't see any basis for saying that the war on Iraq has hindered it, but I'm willing to listen to facts that suggest otherwise.

To: KyrosL who wrote (127595)	3/28/2004 1:59:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The only Iraqi Islamic fundamentalists had a base in the Kurdish north, outside Sadam's reach Simply not true, Kyros. There is lots of evidence connecting Zarqawi (big Ansar al Islam honcho and current leader of AQ anti-Coaltion activities) with Saddam's regime. He himself moved freely in Saddam's Iraq, going to Baghdad for medical treatment. The Kurds have been compiling evidence of the links between Ansar al Islam and the Mukhabarat. Claiming that because it was under a no-fly zone, it was out of Saddam's reach, is silly. It was still in Iraq, and it was fighting the Kurds, Saddam's enemies.

To: KyrosL who wrote (127595)	3/28/2004 5:42:08 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

British MP wants economic sanctions against Israel abc.net.au <<...A British Member of Parliament from the ruling Labour party, Gerald Kaufman, has called for economic sanctions against Israel, including cutting off arms supplies, to force it back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians. "It is not enough for the world community, including our own Government, to condemn the Israeli Government's brutal policies of repression," he said, addressing members of his Manchester constituency. "Only widespread economic sanctions on Israel, together with cutting off arms supplies, can make any impact on this Government without a conscience". Mr Kaufman, himself Jewish, said US President George W Bush's father, the former president Bush, had "understood the importance of forcing the Israelis to the conference table by imposing economic sanctions on a previous Likud Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir". Mr Kaufman, once a frontbench Labour foreign affairs spokesman when the party was in opposition, criticised a decision by Mr Bush to receive Mr Sharon in Washington. "Bush has shown whose side he is on in this grossly unequal struggle by refusing to invite the Palestinian Prime Minister, even though the ostensible purpose of the invitation to Sharon is the Middle East peace process," Mr Kaufman said. Mr Sharon has received an invitation to meet Mr Bush on April 14...>>