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To: Ilaine who wrote (50544)	6/18/2004 9:57:08 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793907

Ted Kennedy Sure Makes the Case For Communion By The MinuteMan Ted Kennedy explains why the Catholic Church should continue to offer communion to John Kerry - " "This pope gave Communion to Gen. [Augusto] Pinochet," the brutal Chilean dictator accused of murders and human-rights violations, Boston magazine quotes Kennedy as saying." Hmm, is this a Kerry Motto Lotto entry? Kerry - no worse than Pinochet! justoneminute.typepad.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (50544)	6/19/2004 4:21:17 AM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793907

<<Another prediction: there will be no credible evidence that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, and not much contact with Al Qaeda, period.>> That has been obvious to any careful student of current affairs for about 2 1/2 years now. I'm really disturbed that the US public has beeen manipulated to believe otherwise. IMO, it shows a contempt of the people that is characteristic of totalitarian regimes. I was largely apolitical in the USA until 2 years ago. As a long-time Green Card holder, the last time I voted was in 1979. I voted for Margaret Thatcher in England because she was necessary to reverse out-of-control socialism. On Wednesday I'm attending a $500-per-seat Kerry fundraiser because I believe we're facing a fascist darkness now. I'm deeply deeply concerned. Cobalt, I'm an intelligent and fair-minded person. This is a time to speak for change. You should speak for change too.

To: Ilaine who wrote (50544)	6/29/2004 1:26:30 AM
From: jjkirk	Respond to of 793907

Hi Blue, Yes, Chalabi was a self-serving weak reed. Given our weakness in humint in the Arab and Muslim world, we should have looked beyond him for clues for what to expect. You may remember that unclewest was lamenting the fact that post-war internal security was being given short shrift in the runup to the war. We can second guess the administration all day long, but we can only go forward, not backward from this point. I must have missed the Bush speech wherein he tied Saddam to 9/11. However, if we can believe what Putin has said lately about the Al Qaeda-Iraq pre-war connections, the historians will agree on that one too. And this evening, I heard Tony Snow discussing yellow cake that may yet show that Saddam was working to obtain material to build elementary nucs. Military intelligence has always shown a strong biochem wpns capability in Iraq. No western army since WWI has had to deal with the level of chem warfare we saw in the Iran-Iraq war. My mind will remain open and the President will have the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise...and, as you intimate, that could take awhile. jj