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To: michael97123 who wrote (238058)	7/27/2007 12:52:45 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, I agree, but that is what is so frustrating. Our first order of business was bin Laden and associates -- now we are so bogged down in Iraq that we waste our energy trying to pretend that these offshoots in Iraq are "the central front". This is baloney. And now the same crew is trying to feed us the next piece of baloney -- it is all the fault of Iran and Syria. I am tired of the US seeing the ME through the eyes of Israel. I understand why Israel's priority was Iraq and now is Iran and Syria -- but it should not be ours.

To: michael97123 who wrote (238058)	7/27/2007 2:21:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

utter inablity to admit that if saddam was still in power (not good), there would be no al quaeda in iraq. AQ wouldn't be active in Iraq, you wouldn't have such numbers in Iraq, that's true. But does that mean that AQ wouldn't be active anywhere else? They declared war on the US in 1998 mike, did they need Iraq to do it? They began plotting 9/11 in 1996, what was their great cause then? Where were Zarqawi and Abu Ayub al Masri in 2002? In Iraq. Saddam had something going with Ansar Al Islam, with AQ in Somalia - he had his fingers in some pies there. Not to mention Abu Nidal and the bomber from the 1993 WTC attack - they were in Iraq too. To claim that there was no relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda, as the MSM likes to do, is flat out false. The very nature of the insurgency, where Baathist cash and thugs married up with AQ ideology real quick, puts the lie to no cooperation.