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To: American Spirit who wrote (341910)	1/11/2003 3:58:41 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Sorry UAS. As I noted previously, that post confirms you do not have command of the facts.... JLA

To: American Spirit who wrote (341910)	1/11/2003 5:26:18 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Saddam is a creep but he hates Islamic Fundamentalists. Saddam's Ba'ath party is supported by Sunnis, the same ones that support Syria's leader, the Taliban and the same ones that murder Christians and other Muslims in Algeria and the Sudan. Sure he might be using them, as only a megalomaniac can, but hate's a strong word.

To: American Spirit who wrote (341910)	1/11/2003 6:49:12 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hillary and Ex-Klansman Team Up to Create 'Planned Pandemonium' Saturday, Jan. 11, 2003 10:25 a.m. EST newsmax.com Democratic Party presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton teamed up with Sen. Robert Byrd to create "planned pandemonium" during Tuesday's opening Senate session, as questions erupted elsewhere on Capitol Hill over whether Byrd participated in lynchings or other hate crimes while he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s. When Sen. Clinton rose to address the Senate on the proposed extension of federal unemployment benefits, Republicans thought she would tout the bill that she helped hammer out with GOP senators for an 18-week extension of the program. Instead, Clinton threw a monkey wrench into the proceedings by calling for an expansion of benefits to cover a million more people. "Planned pandemonium broke out on the Senate floor," reports columnist Robert Novak, who noted that the former Klansman, as if on cue, immediately joined the squabble by offering "assorted parliamentary impediments." "The clear plan," said Novak, was to deny newly crowned Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist "any gain without pain." MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews also noted the Clinton-Byrd doubleteam effort against Frist, as he watched the brouhaha from the Senate press gallery. "Everybody was circling around [Hillary] when they were having that big dispute over unemployment benefits," he told radioman Don Imus. "Bobby Byrd was fighting over the rules and winning that fight." As Clinton and Byrd were busy working in tandem to deny the new Republican Senate majority a smooth opening day, Byrd's Hart Building Senate office was filled with protesters from the African-American Republican Leadership Council and members of the Web site FreeRepublic.com. According to participants, several demanded to know whether the 85-year-old former Klansman had ever participated in any lynchings, cross burnings or other hate crimes during his days as Grand Kleagle for the domestic terrorist group. (See: 'KKK' Byrd's Spokesman Draws Blank on Lynching Role) Byrd's press secretary, Tom Gavin, was not reassuring. According to witnesses present, Gavin said he had no idea to what extent his boss had participated in or otherwise facilitated attacks on African-Americans as a member of the notorious hate group. Gavin said he had never pressed for details, but that Bryd once told him he joined the Klan believing its main thrust was anti-communism. According to statistics compiled by the NAACP, there were 48 lynchings in Byrd's home state between 1882 and 1968. Twenty-eight of the victims were black, 20 were white. Gavin's inability to provide assurances that the Senate's most-senior Democrat had not contibuted to what some describe as "the black Holocaust" prompted calls in some quarters for a congressional investigation to clarify Byrd's Klan activities. A spokeswoman for civil rights activist-turned-presidential-candidate Al Sharpton had not responded to a question about backing a congressional Byrd-Klan probe by press time.