This is where the Middle East comes in. If Iraq is a geographic base, then
what is it the geographic base of?
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From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:05 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
sentence diagramming time. And actually I was wrong, Iraq is not the
subject. Serves me right for getting snippy without having the topic
of the snippiness in front of me. But look
"If we are successful in Iraq"
Conditional clause. Let A="we are successful in Iraq"
"we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if
you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under
assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."
Subject = we
Verb = strike
Predicate = "the base...of the terrorists...on 9/11." I don't believe
those ellipses do any damage to meaning.
Let B="we strike a blow at the base of the terrorists" (optional
qualifer re 9/11)
The sentence boils down to If A then B. I see no mention at all of
"Middle East." I do see mention of "iraq" in the premise (A).
Dana
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