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To: GST who wrote (139762)	7/10/2004 8:27:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Excuse me but your post opened with a quote from someone else which opined that Middle Easterners were untrustworthy. Which was your launchpad for denouncing Chalabi and other "lying bastards" as you put it. Here's your post: <I don't hate Middle Easterners. I just don't believe anything they tell me that I can't verify with my own eyes.> Like Chalabi? Where do you think the "intelligence" for our invasion came from -- that is right, from "lying bastards" as you put it. Perhaps we should have verified some of the horse manure we were being fed before sending our children to die in Iraq. Message 20296915 Using a statement expressing distrust in Middle Easterners honesty as a launching pad for your own attack on people providing information on Saddam's regime implicitly involves crediting the original statement. Now, it's OK with me if you do. I just wondered if you'd stick to your argument when it was pointed out what you were doing. You didn't. In fact, you even mischaracterize your own post: I said that people with a motive to lie and distort should be viewed with suspicion whatever their cultural background That sounds nice, but you didn't actually say that in your previous post. I think we should view with suspicion anyone with a record of lying and distorting. I have someone in mind as I write this.