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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (181417)	2/8/2006 8:23:54 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Moving out of Gaza made israel more vulnerable to rocket attack. It is clear to me that if this occurs and assuming the rockets are more accurate than before, Israel will deal with this with crushing blows. It will not be pretty and the Pals will ultimately lose more land. Rationale folks wont go this route but the Pals have been rejecting land for peace since 1947 so what's new. I think iran vis a vis the West may be in a similar place as Hamas is with israel. The new nutcase leader who ran on a reform platform now has some tough decisions as well. Remember he was very aware of the corrupt leadership of the Mullahs and although he is religious he was elected by a majority of the folks participating. He could stay as an extreme figure or he could ally with the students and pursue a nationalist, but secular regime with some democracy. A long shot indeed but so is hamas and israel. mike

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (181417)	2/8/2006 11:06:55 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Looks like the Senior Democrat on the Intelligence committee is "eating crow".. Likely soon to be followed by numerous other Democrats who tried to turn valid military operations into a political game: news.yahoo.com At least one Democrat left the four-hour House Intelligence Committee session saying he had a better understanding of legal and operational aspects of the anti-terrorist surveillance program, being conducted without warrants. But he said he still had a number of questions. "It's a different program than I was beginning to let myself believe," said Alabama Rep. Bud Cramer, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee's oversight subcommittee. "This may be a valuable program," Cramer said, adding that he didn't know if it was legal. "My direction of thinking was changed tremendously."