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Subject:	Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 24 May 2004 18:40:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

As I recall, the death toll from the destruction of the World Trade Center came in somewhere under 3,000, so Dubya is responsible for the unprovoked massacre of a far greater number of innocent civilians than Osama bin Laden.

Incorrect. In fact, the responsibility of those lost Iraqi lives can be attributed to OBL as well. Consider this recent NYT article by Thomas Friedman: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/opinion/23FRIE.html?pagewanted=print&position=

The resistance in Iraq is coming primarily from outside Iraq, not in. As Friedman says, it is better to address this threat early outside of US borders before it reaches us.

JOHN

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		Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
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