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To: Sr K who wrote (250725)	5/19/2008 11:26:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

Abu Ghraib? Iraq? USA PATRIOT Act? Look at our currency. Al Qaeda popularity has suffered a lot more from Iraq than ours. For all al Jazeera supports them like they supported Saddam (Saddam paid them; I wonder if al Qaeda does), it is becoming clear to the Muslim world that al Qaeda mainly kills Muslims. As Iraq stablilizes, what comes out of Iraq cuts two ways, as people ask why Iraq has democracy and they don't. Abu Graib was a propaganda wound inflicted on us by the NYT, who ran it on the front page for over 30 days in a row. I don't believe the Patriot Act is an issue outside the US.

To: Sr K who wrote (250725)	5/20/2008 9:24:37 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793895

I recall the 90's and remember we were widely condemned for killing 50,000 Iraqi children a year by enforcing the UN's sanctions on Iraq. UN bureaucrats resigned their jobs saying the sanctions we enforced were genocidal. Pretty much everyone in the Muslim world believed the stories. Osama made the dead Iraqi babies we were supposedly responsible for killing a primary support for his two fatwas calling on Muslims to kill Americans. The myth America's standing is worse today than then is just that - a myth believable only by people with no memory.