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To: Lane3 who wrote (18184)	5/10/2006 11:49:50 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542946

Ah well I could have just read your post and said "ditto"

To: Lane3 who wrote (18184)	5/10/2006 12:58:32 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542946

Don't you know the rules of SI posting? Every thread is required to have someone who nitpicks. That would be me. <g> Here are some more of his comments and my nits: "Israel should be destroyed". "German and Austria should become the home of Israel". "Israel should be wiped off the map". Most of us know his letter played to parts of the UN, muslims and the partisan left in this country. I don't know why eleutheria posted the letter, since she did not say. I could ask her except she places me on and off ignore and I can never catch the right moment. <g> Since, she nor Baker, placed a limit on comments to the post, I offered mine. Because, I specialize in "nits". We have a difference in lexicon? Surely, you jest. A few months ago we could not agree on whether another terrorist attack was likely.

To: Lane3 who wrote (18184)	5/10/2006 3:13:28 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 542946

What struck me about the comment was more the use of the term "incident" rather than the level of adjective used to describe the "incident." Main Entry: 1in·ci·dent Pronunciation: 'in(t)-s&-d&nt, -"dent Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin incident-, incidens, from Latin, present participle of incidere to fall into, from in- + cadere to fall -- more at CHANCE 1 : something dependent on or subordinate to something else of greater or principal importance 2 a : an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : HAPPENING b : an accompanying minor occurrence or condition : CONCOMITANT 3 : an action likely to lead to grave consequences especially in diplomatic matters <a serious border incident> synonym see OCCURRENCE There's something about the term "incident" that almost seems to sanitize 9/11, nothwithstanding the modifier "horrendous." But maybe that's just me.