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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (257399)	2/23/2008 7:50:01 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am not sure what your point is Nadine or why you think these personal attacks are necessary, they lend nothing to your argument. I've provided you with information that is accurate and useful to bolstering your own position, and which corrects weakesses in your presentation. With regards to the Iyatollahs: 1) Muqtada recognizes their authority, as I've demonstrated. 2) Not all the Iyatollahs have supported the same politics or people in Iraq nor does Muktada, putting him at odds with some on occasion. So a statement like 'the Iyatollahs this' or 'the Iyatollahs that' is almost always flawed in these circumstances. That seems to be your mistake, a common problem with extremists. 3) Muktada has confronted and opposed the teachings of some of them over political circumstance, and is in their general favor with his Mehdi movement, at the moment. 4) Neither sentence in your commentary has anything to do with anything I've stated and you're deliberately forewarding a misrepresentation of what I have said. The Coalition Provisional Authority brought those charges, not the Iranian ayatollahs. You're smoking something if you can't tell the difference. 5) You completely overlooked the historical treatment I provided you on Muqtada's rise to power and his current circumstance... maybe it was because you don't want to look stupid after claiming he is an inconsequential idiot... but guess what, ignoring good and useful information because you don't like being shown to be wrong not only exposes your arrogance, it is stupid.