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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (152841)	11/29/2004 3:08:23 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 281500

... reminds us what polling tells us - a large number of people still believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, directly or indirectly, even though nothing could be further from the truth. Poppycock.....

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (152841)	11/29/2004 4:13:35 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<< a large number of people still believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, directly or indirectly, even though nothing could be further from the truth. >> There is a difference between the statements: A. Iraq did not collaborate in 9/11, and B. No evidence has been found that Iraq collaborated in 9/11. While statement B is easily proved through a cataloging of existing evidence, statement A (a universal negative) can only be proved through exhaustive enumeration of every action, conversation and transaction of every Iraqi official and 9/11 perpetrator, dead or alive. Therefore, statement A cannot be proven for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the impracticality of interviewing dead people. How far the statement is from the truth nobody will ever know.