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To: michael97123 who wrote (124047)	7/8/2005 12:58:28 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I always have and still see the liberation of Iraq as central to the WOT. I really have no idea why the connections are not obvious to you. Newt Gingrich wrote three civil war books of fiction. If one reads them, they are a great lesson plan in coming to understand the reality of logistic for any group that wishes to engage in the activities of war. Iraq under sadam was just as much a blind spot of what was going on as Afghanistan under the taliban. We could not even figure out sadam was faking he had WMD's. Could anything be more obvious?

To: michael97123 who wrote (124047)	7/8/2005 1:28:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

The iraq war was portrayed as central to the WOT when it wasnt really but now it is and we are like the Boy who cried wolf. It was central. The WOT is the opposition of Al Qaeda's fantasy ideology AND the terror-master states against the modern world. You can't fight such a fight if you leave a Saddam alive and triumphant over the West even after he's lost a war, and granting aid and assistance to every terrorist group he can. That feeds right into jihadi philosophy. See? they say. The West may be rich, but they are too soft to lose men or even finish off an enemy when they have him helpless. We can take them on.