>> And the USA does not now, nor will it
>> ever, negotiate with terrorists.
>
> Unless they're Cuban terrorists, of course, they're welcomed with open
>arms...
> Or the Taliban, but that took a bit too long...

And look at the contradiction in saying "oh, we went in to liberate Iraq from a
despotic ruler," and we now turn around and, as per --

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article node= contentId=
A50216-2001Sep30 notFound=true

-- we're making sweetheart deals with Uzbekistan, *another* despotic ruler.
Not to mention that we've made deals with groups in Afghanistan and Iraq to
come in and help us run the place that have in the past been on our own
terrorist lists. The hypocrisy never seems to end.

jms

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