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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (132374)	5/9/2004 4:09:27 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 281500

" Your point is fairly irrelevant. "... I've heard that said about the UN as well..<GG> " That's why I don't pay much attention to it. ".. Well it certainly caused pain for those who wanted Americans to believe that 911 had NOTHING to do with the 51st state, now didn't it. And tot his day they will harp on and on that 911 had NOTHING to do with the 51st state,and those who contest this FACT are always in danger of being deemed some evil ant- _________________________ insert here. " His focus was Saudi Arabia, and the American troops there propping up the regime. The Palestinians are strictly an afterthought for him. "... Well I'm sure he has his priorities,but the constant in the equation was indeed American presence and influence in the ME,be it the 51st state or SA or Jordan or whatever. " Certainy the idea that Osama bin Laden wants the US to be a "honest broker" is crazy... ".. Totally nuts, actually.He's way beyond that, but likely believes he has had an influence by bringing his " position " to the forefront. He has been the victor on that front, and now has Bush and the rest of the Foreign Policy idiots doing exactly what they shouldn't have. " One can only read it as a self-delusion (one that seems common in some hard-left circles) that the Islamists don't mean what they say, they are really thinking like the left - they really care about poverty and other 'root causes'. "... I remain as skeptical about the Islamists as I do about most others engaged in this little Crusade Towards Democracy,and all the other warm fuzzy edicts being bandied about. It's land and Oil as far as I'm concerned. Nothing new under the sun here today... Move along..move along...<GGG> Shalom! KC PS:Happy Mother’s day...if that applies. L8TR.