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To: Lou Weed who wrote (240880)	9/4/2007 1:54:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe you're mixing me up with someone else?? I never mentioned anything about first term or second term Possibly. You've been posting for a while, and such a position would have been so consistent with your stance on the Mideast, it's possible I attributed it to you. Come on, seriously, weren't you pushing for Bush to negotiate with Arafat? <<It's possible they don't mind the prospect of a nuclear exchange>> Pure conjecture....you really think they are that dumb? (This is a rhetorical question BTW). Look, it isn't just me saying it, it's President Rafsanjani. What are we to make of such a high placed figure saying that a nuclear exchange would be an acceptable tradeoff? Do you think the Iranians are small children or what, that you blow off such remarks? No I'm not.....again your assumptions are incorrect. The cause will never be destroyed as long as there are hardline fundamentalists. That there are TWO is your assumption. What I am saying is that ONE is enough. I think any dispassionate viewing of the history of the last 80 years there would spot the cause of the conflict that you somehow seem to keep missing: the non-acceptance of Israel. Period, full stop. Somehow in your desire to believe that the two sides must be the same, you have morphed buildiing a few towns into an offense equal to threatening a nuclear exchange. Yet you admit that Arab countries like the conflict and Arafat prevented a peace deal. Your position is riven with internal contradictions. There is an old saying that it takes only one enemy to breed a war, not two.