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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Someone I'm arguing with just threw this in my face saying, "If there wasn't a war in Iraq then we'd be fighting al-Qaida where they already were, not where they flocked to."

These people are just too funny, huh?
3 posted on 02/09/2004 12:11:00 PM PST by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: RandallFlagg; Dog
So true. He is just calling for reinforcements!
6 posted on 02/09/2004 12:16:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: RandallFlagg; Dog
See this from todays Coalition briefing of the reporters ( link above ):

Yes? In the back.

Q: Do you believe the foreign fighters came into Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime or before that?

Kimmitt: All we know is that we have foreign fighters in this country right now. The coalition is determined to develop intelligence to find them and bring them to justice.

Senor: I would just add that there is obviously -- the State Department has designated the Iraqi regime as a state sponsor of terrorism going back some couple decades, and there have been charges of visibility in this country of foreign fighters before our arrival. But, to General Kimmitt's point, the focus is on the here and now, and certainly the memo that was discovered is quite enlightening in that regard.

We have time for one more question. Yes, sir?

Q: Gregor Mayer from German Press Agency. Not having seen this report in The New York Times, can you disclose under what circumstances this memo came into the public -- in the public space?

Kimmitt: Sure. We picked this memo up from the courier as part of ongoing military and security operations inside this country.

Senor: All right. Thanks, everybody.

18 posted on 02/09/2004 1:17:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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