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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (151871)	11/17/2004 6:44:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

You are making a lot of claims about various regimes but are not showing how they came to be so. My claims where hardly extensive or controversial. While point out exceptions such as a former regime in Iran, and obviously the current government of Iraq, I said most governments in the Middle East were not put in place by the US. I also said aid, trade, and diplomacy doesn't make for an empire. The US may be the dominant country in the world and it does exert a lot of influence, but that influence is not for the most part imperial in nature. Tim