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To: steve dietrich who wrote (170201)	8/30/2005 1:19:49 AM
From: illyia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Never happen, terrorist group like Al-quida can not control a population, with OBL as supreme leader. Once they had control of a government (implausible to me), they would themselves become targets of "terrorism". Or more directly, they would become targets of conventional warfare and not last as long as Saddam's army.>> <<Bush must have thought he had to inflate obl to justify using the military to invade Iraq. All he's managed to do is inflate Al-quida by generating new recruits.>> Two very good insights in a row! i. P.S. Rather like the barbarians' take over of Rome: They did not have the ability (discipline) to run a complex government, but they could destroy it...