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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150651)	11/2/2004 4:34:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's a pretty big "funnel" (using sales-speak here) from which to recruit new terrorists, most of whom will have at least some anger towards the US regardless of how they felt about Saddam. Even if only one quarter to one half of these people feel real anger or hate, its more than enough. Enough for what? Enough to lay bombs in the marketplace to kill 20 Iraqis in the hope of killing one American? or enough to commit suicide in a frontal assault on the US Marines? Arabs aren't robots with one result for any input. Consequences also matter. It is very hard, I admit, to deal with a people who seem to be running mainly on wounded pride and humiliation. For example, do you have the least idea how many French civilians the Allies killed in 1944? Yet for some reason, the anger was not funnelled towards the Allies in that case.

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150651)	11/2/2004 7:12:19 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think there is a huge gap between the civilians in Iraq and the foreign Al Quaeda fighters that we are fighting in places like Fallujah. I do not think that someone injured or maimed from a suicide bomb is going to become a terrorist as a result. I highly doubt that the family of the injured person is going to lay down their life to commit an act of suicide bombing as a result. The damage from the violence does not make more violence a winning cause.