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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (4108)	11/2/2006 8:35:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

So.... You are claiming that IRANIAN SUPPORT for, (& influence in) the Iraqi Shiite government is --- what? --- 'irrelevant' to the matter of drawing any conclusions about what policies it would be best for the US to pursue with regard to Iraq????????? No, my point was highly specific. The US and the government of Iraq are allied. When I stated that you started talking about Iranian influence in the Iraqi government but its mostly irrelevant to my specific point. And the Irrelevant conclusion was neither that particular point, nor "'irrelevant' to the matter of drawing any conclusions about what policies it would be best for the US to pursue with regard to Iraq". The irrelevant conclusion I mentioned was your defending the relevance of the Iranian-Iraqi relationship with an argument about the existence of the Iranian-Iraqi relationship. Going back to my example about my car and the price of tea in China - I post pictures of my car, and show it is silver, I could get eyewitnesses to vouch for the car etc. All of which would prove that my car was silver. But the fact that it is silver has nothing whatsoever to do with the price of tea in China. Volumes of evidence that the relationship exists, doesn't amount to any evidence that the relationship is relevant.