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To: Ilaine who wrote (120210)	6/15/2005 12:47:56 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

Obviously, I was using sarcasm....But then you knew that, didn't you? -gg However, you have made my point precisely....even if perhaps you didn't intend to. You said: When someone says something is a symbol, they don't mean "it's trash, throw it away." They mean, it is not the thing it stands for. But you had also said: But those institutions are also symbols -- they symbolize American free enterprise and wealth. A stock certificate is just a piece of paper, which is a symbol, but it symbolizes ownership rights in a large corporation, which is a form of wealth. Paper money is also a symbol, but that doesn't make it trash. OBL and AQ had decided that our symbols of "power" needed to be attacked, and they did.