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To: Sdgla who wrote (221313)	2/26/2007 10:19:40 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Given the history of W's war, and all the fantasies that have been stated as "facts" in the course of various propaganda campaigns before and during that war, I don't think I'm the one with the dreaming on problem. A particular favorite from early on: "I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America, that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni, or the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq has always been very secular." That would be Bill Kristol on 4/1/03, spewing the line du jour as usual. I've never quite figured out why the hard core thought their usual penetrating "Arab Mind" analysis somehow didn't apply to Iraq, but I assume it was mostly a convenience thing. At least Kristol seems to have known of the existence of Shia and Sunni in Iraq, somewhat in contrast to the war president.