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David Hansen wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:41:13 +0100 someone who may be Graeme Wall
wrote this:-

As the Australian PM pointed out, Bali was before Iraq, WTC was before
Iraq, Nairobi was before Iraq, Mombasa was before Iraq etc, etc, etc.

And as others have pointed out, the invasion of Iraq is but one
factor. They have also pointed out that before the invasion there
was the "oil for food" programme and the "no fly zones".



The invasion of Iraq is largely irrelevant, in fact it has given the
fundamentalists an in to a country they were unable to penetrate before. The
oil for food programme was a UN policy and irrelevant politically to both Al
Quaeda and Dubya. The no-fly zones were irrelevant to everybody as they
didn't cover helos and the Iraquis had no operational fixed wing aircraft
after Desert Storm.

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