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To: epicure who wrote (155614)	1/8/2005 1:59:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Kind of funny that Saddam killed the most people while an ally of ours isn't it? Funny not in the haha sense. Was the left supposed to notice that, or not notice that? The Left was supposed to notice, and to keep noticing when Saddam stopped being an American ally. They dropped the ball on the second part. Saddam killed the most people in 1991, btw, after the Gulf War. BTW, if you are championing mulilateralism, never was their such a multilaterally approved policy as the US support for Saddam against Iran. The rest of the Gulf would have kept those two countries fighting forever, if they could have.

To: epicure who wrote (155614)	1/8/2005 3:08:46 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A New Account on Why Camp David Failed :From: Jude Wanniski www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=4084 <<SNIP>> >>>>You may recall back in late November I wrote about a young man named Clayton Swisher who had just published a book about the breakdown of the Arab/Israeli peace talks in the last days of the Clinton administration, "The Truth About Camp David." I'd learned about him through CNN's Kathleen Hays, who told me his book came to the same conclusion as mine, and that he'd spent two years doing the research to nail it all down. I promised that once I read the book I would report back. It turned out to be everything I hoped it would be and more. Here is the account of it that I wrote for Al Jazeera's English website this week, which I think makes it clear that Arafat was not the villain of the piece but that he did everything he could to prevent the second intifada. I'm directing this to book editors because the book has been out several weeks and has not been reviewed in the major media. I wonder why.<<< I wonder why too! www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560256230/102-8502448-3484964?v=glance Editorial Reviews Charles Enderlin, author of Shattered Dreams and Jerusalem Bureau chief of France 2 television : "Any future mediator will have to read this account before the start of any final-status negotiations." Product Description: The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. Syrian and Palestinian intransigence was blamed for the current disastrous state of affairs, as both parties rejected a "generous" peace offering from the Israelis that would have brought peace to the region. The Truth About Camp David shatters that myth. Based on the riveting, eyewitness accounts of more than forty direct participants involved in the latest rounds of Arab-Israeli negotiations, including the Camp David 2000 summit, former federal investigator-turned-investigative journalist Clayton E. Swisher provides a compelling counter-narrative to the commonly accepted history. The Truth About Camp David details the tragic inner workings of the Clinton Administration's negotiating mayhem, their eleventh hour blunders and miscalculations, and their concluding decision to end the Oslo process with blame and disengagement. It is not only a fascinating historical look at Middle East politics on the brink of disaster, but a revelatory portrait of how all-too-human American political considerations helped facilitate the present crisis.<<<<< Seems no one wants to learn the truth these days. Such a bother I guess. Wouldn't want to destroy five years of perfect demonization, now would we. heh heh heh E'M'