To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148862 ) 10/24/2004 4:54:02 PM From: Don Hurst Respond to of 281500 >>"Canard? What the hell are you talking about? The $25,000 was paid in PUBLIC CEREMONIES in front of the media, with full credit claimed and given. You want the links, I'll find them for you. The Palestinians loved Saddam for it."<< Did they have the "PUBLIC CEREMONIES" in front of the family homes before or after the Israelis leveled them and did Saddam make an aircraft carrier like appearance in a helo with his jump suit on to make those mythical payments? No doubt they favored (loved??) Saddam because Arafat supported Saddam in Gulf War I when (I know you will correct me if I am wrong) PMDs were not an issue in Israel. Now find the links!! Show the canceled checks, the ATM receipts, the bank statements, the paid family vacations to a Gaza Israeli settlement (spa?) on the Med, or maybe even the rebuilt homes. Also, the old mass grave canard again...most of the mass killing of Iraqis occurred (that is outside of the Iran/Iraq War....where were those bodies buried???) after Gulf War I when we left the Shia and Kurds to rebel and get slaughtered using btw, helos that Schwartzkopf had let the Iraqi military keep after they surrendered. Who is responsible for those "mass graves"? Saddam for putting down a rebellion or us for instigating it and then leaving the instigated to get slaughtered? No WMD and no Iraq connection to al Queda and 9/11 is pretty good evidence of unnecessary mass death and injuries caused to Americans and Iraqis by this administration. Does it matter to you? Oh btw, what about this current daily crop of Iraqi PMDs? See if you can find links to the "PUBLIC CEREMONIES" that explain why this is happening and then send them to Friedman and the CIA.