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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Really Tom? What is the difference between a
Nazi regime that seeks the extermination of the Jewish race, and a coalition of
Muslim extremists that seeks the same? We cannot allow this latest strain
of murderous anti-Semitism to fester unchecked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Never again!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best, -T</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=tonytime@clearwire.net
href="mailto:tonytime@clearwire.net">'Tony'</A> ; <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">'Art Deco'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] Washington
Post: more anti-American bullshit</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Golly, gee, ToeKnee
–<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You really are
struggling with the English language, huh?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The article posted by
Wayne Fox clearly disputes (with evidence) the claim by Cheney and Bush that
Hussein had links to Al-Qaeda.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Perhaps you should
start questioning your unqualified support for the Bush machine and your
evident distaste for the US Constitution and the civil liberties it
affords.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tom
Hansen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></SPAN></FONT></st1:place><FONT face=Arial
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">*******************************************************<BR><BR>"*Why*
a person does what he does is at least as important as the objective
behavior."<BR><BR>- Princess Sushitushi (September 10,
2006)<BR><BR>*******************************************************</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Tony<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:25
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Art Deco<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Washington
Post: more anti-American bullshit</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gee <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>, thanks for your lengthy screed in
support of that sociopathic murderer, Saddam Hussein. Wow, what
next? A piece advising us that we really shouldn't have gone after
Adolph Hitler? I mean, golly, all he did was gas woman and children by
the millions.... What was <st1:place w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place>
thinking? What could Bush have been thinking in stopping a man who threw
his enemies into plastic shredding machines, tortured innocents for sadistic
sport, raped woman to pass the time of day, impoverished the masses in order
to build lavish facilities for himself, and shared the goals of the nut-cake
Muslim faction? I mean really <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>, you are so right! To HELL with
human rights and freedom! Let's all just stay here and play our video
games and sip our latte's while horror reigns abroad, giggling over its bloody
victims.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You should hang your head in shame
you spoiled bastard.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">-TONY</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">----- Original Message -----
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <A
title=deco@moscow.com href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision
2020</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sent:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Friday,
April 06, 2007 7:12 AM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
[Vision2020] <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> Post: Hussein's Prewar Ties To
Al-QaedaDiscounted<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda
Discounted</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT></B>Pentagon
Report Says Contacts Were Limited<o:p></o:p></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">By R.
Jeffrey Smith<BR><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> Post Staff Writer<BR>Friday,
April 6, 2007; A01</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence
interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that
Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> invasion of
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, according to a declassified
Defense Department report released yesterday.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General Thomas F.
Gimble, also contains new details about the intelligence community's prewar
consensus that the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda figures had only limited
contacts, and about its judgments that reports of deeper links were based on
dubious or unconfirmed information. The report had been released in summary
form in February.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
report's release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing
on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was
operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the direction
of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last
June.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"This
is al-Qaeda operating in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>," Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about
Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>."
Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing
<st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> forces from
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> would "play right into the
hands of al-Qaeda."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Senate
Armed Services Committee Chairman <A
href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000261/">Carl M.
Levin</A> (D-Mich.), who requested the report's declassification, said in a
written statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why the
inspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run by
then-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately
written intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging
connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus
disputed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
report, in a passage previously marked secret, said Feith's office had
asserted in a briefing given to Cheney's chief of staff in September 2002
that the relationship between <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and al-Qaeda was "mature"
and "symbiotic," marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation
across 10 categories, including training, financing and
logistics.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Instead, the report said, the CIA had concluded in
June 2002 that there were few substantiated contacts between al-Qaeda
operatives and Iraqi officials and had said that it lacked evidence of a
long-term relationship like the ones <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> had
forged with other terrorist groups.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"Overall, the reporting provides no conclusive signs
of cooperation on specific terrorist operations," that CIA report said,
adding that discussions on the issue were "necessarily
speculative."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The CIA
had separately concluded that reports of Iraqi training on weapons of mass
destruction were "episodic, sketchy, or not corroborated in other channels,"
the inspector general's report said. It quoted an August 2002 CIA report
describing the relationship as more closely resembling "two organizations
trying to feel out or exploit each other" rather than cooperating
operationally.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The CIA
was not alone, the defense report emphasized. The Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) had concluded that year that "available reporting is not firm
enough to demonstrate an ongoing relationship" between the Iraqi regime and
al-Qaeda, it said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">But the
contrary conclusions reached by Feith's office -- and leaked to the
conservative Weekly Standard magazine before the war -- were publicly
praised by Cheney as the best source of information on the topic, a
circumstance the Pentagon report cites in documenting the impact of what it
described as "inappropriate" work.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Feith
has vigorously defended his work, accusing Gimble of "giving bad advice
based on incomplete fact-finding and poor logic," and charging that the
acting inspector general has been "cheered on by the chairmen of the Senate
intelligence and armed services committees." In January, Feith's successor
at the Pentagon, Eric S. Edelman, wrote a 52-page rebuttal to the inspector
general's report that disputed its analysis and its recommendations for
Pentagon reform.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cheney's public statements before and after the war
about the risks posed by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> have closely tracked the
briefing Feith's office presented to the vice president's then-chief of
staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. That includes the briefing's depiction of
an alleged 2001 meeting in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Prague</st1:place></st1:City> between an Iraqi intelligence
official and one of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers as one of eight "Known
Iraq-Al Qaida Contacts."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
defense report states that at the time, "the intelligence community
disagreed with the briefing's assessment that the alleged meeting
constituted a 'known contact' " -- a circumstance that the report said was
known to Feith's office. But his office had bluntly concluded in a July 2002
critique of a CIA report on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s relationship with al-Qaeda
that the CIA's interpretation of the facts it cited "ought to be
ignored."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
briefing to Libby was also presented with slight variations to then-Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and
then-deputy national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley. It was prepared in
part by someone whom the defense report described as a "junior Naval
Reservist" intelligence analyst detailed to Feith's office from the DIA. The
person is not named in the report, but Edelman wrote that she was requested
by Feith's office.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The
briefing, a copy of which was declassified and released yesterday by Levin,
goes so far as to state that "Fragmentary reporting points to possible Iraqi
involvement not only in 9/11 but also in previous al Qaida attacks." That
idea was dismissed in 2004 by a presidential commission investigating the
Sept. 11 attacks, noting that "no credible evidence" existed to support
it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When a
senior intelligence analyst working for the government's counterterrorism
task force obtained an early account of the conclusions by Feith's office --
titled "Iraq and al-Qaida: Making the Case" -- the analyst prepared a
detailed rebuttal calling it of "no intelligence value" and taking issue
with 15 of 26 key conclusions, the report states. The analyst's rebuttal was
shared with intelligence officers on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but
evidently not with others.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Edelman
complained in his own account of the incident that a senior Joint Chiefs
analyst -- in responding to a suggestion by the DIA analyst that the "Making
the Case" account be widely circulated -- told its author that "putting it
out there would be playing into the hands of people" such as then-Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, and belittled the author for trying to
support "some agenda of people in the
building."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">But the
inspector general's report, in a footnote, commented that it is "noteworthy
. . . that post-war debriefs of Sadaam Hussein, [former Iraqi foreign
minister] Tariq Aziz, [former Iraqi intelligence minister Mani al-Rashid] al
Tikriti, and [senior al-Qaeda operative Ibn al-Shaykh] al-Libi, as well as
document exploitation by DIA all confirmed that the Intelligence Community
was correct: Iraq and al-Qaida did not cooperate in all categories" alleged
by Feith's office.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">From
these sources, the report added, "the terms the Intelligence Community used
to describe the relationship between <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
al-Qaida were validated, [namely] 'no conclusive signs,' and 'direct
cooperation . . . has not been established.' "<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Zarqawi, whom Cheney depicted yesterday as an agent
of al-Qaeda in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> before the war, was not then
an al-Qaeda member but was the leader of an unaffiliated terrorist group who
occasionally associated with al-Qaeda adherents, according to several
intelligence analysts. He publicly allied himself with al-Qaeda in early
2004, after the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
invasion.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: italic">Staff writer Dafna Linzer and
staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this
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