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Ms. Mylroie and Mr. Rahim do an excellent job of peeling away the layers to get to the essence of this evil cabal. Yet even with all the previous information that has been disseminated, i.e. Salman Pak, the Saddam/Zarqawi connection, and so much more, these canaries continue to sing their song of ignorance. Dr. Thomas Sowell was so right when he coined the phrase the "irrelevance of evidence."

These groups have staked their reputations and political goals on these falsehoods and must remain intransigent, no matter how absurd their positions in light of new information, because to admit error would relegate them to obsolescence. Instead of putting these groups' feet to the fire, the Bush Administration, in its "new tone" mentality, has remained meekly silent, ceding the high ground to them, until recently.

p>To buttress this contention, I might add that the latest missive from Osama, directed to the American secular left, issued a few weeks ago, spoke of their shared common goal against American Imperialism. I don't recall any dots being connected as to this proposed alliance of common interest. Funny how Osama can break bread with the American left but not with Saddam. Sadly, the Bush Administration failed to make the point when nobody else did. br> -- A. DiPentima /p> p> UNDOCUMENTED POLITICS br> Re: Carol Platt Liebau's Immigration Ground Zero : /p>

Carol Liebau's piece on immigration was very good. I would only add that the apparent prop 187 backlash that supposedly occurred in California never happened. The losses suffered by California conservative Republicans were the result of two things: rampant illegal voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants and left wing extremist activists -- caught on tape and openly confessed on television -- and a downward turn in the California economy.

Of course the L.A. Times and the rest of the liberal press characterized the poor showing by Simon and other conservatives as a backlash against prop 187 -- this was a big lie. Prop 187 won more than 67 percent of the vote, despite the many Catholic priests literally telling their congregations that if they voted for it they would go to hell. Many people were outraged then as they are today with the Mexican flag waving on U.S. soil.

Another cause of the backlash against Davis, aside from the Mexican driver's license and the energy scandal, was the scuttling of prop 187. Davis should have allowed prop 187 to go to the Supreme Court but instead he implemented "mediation". This mediation was a legal trick in which only the opponents of prop 187 had any say and after a so called agreement between parties, prevented the case from reaching the Supreme Court. Davis knew the law was constitutional and would have stood up on appeal to the Supreme Court.

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