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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (100393)	2/14/2005 2:19:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793658

How many times did Eason Jordan need to say "deliberate targeting" before "systematic murdering" became not an embellishment, but a reasonable interpretation of his remarks? The number of times he says it is not germane. He can say "targeting journalists" a thousand times and there are still only twelve journalists and the message is still "targeting journalists." Twelve can be explained away as individual bad actors. If he starts upping the numbers of journalists to some number that would suggest something clearly not ad hoc or asserts some pattern or if he changes his verbage to "sytematic" or "organized" or "sponsored" or some such, only then is it fair to interpret his remarks as "systematic murdering." The other day you mentioned "insinuation." When is something an insinuation and when is it an inference? I think we all need a bit of humility and introspection before we declare something an insinuation rather than an inference.