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To: John Carragher who wrote (68305)	1/24/2003 9:06:10 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

You shouldn't pick on Kennedys As an old Kennedy lover, it is hard to do. But that is Seymour Hersh's version of Vietnam, also.(The Dark Side of Camelot) And he is over on the left with John. It was funny reading Anthony Lewis's review of the two Bush books. He was really pissed at the books' treatment of the Israeli situation. I was just thinking of a phrase that sums up the American left's view of Israel. It ties in with their generic view of the world. They are always looking to help the "Underdog." Give them a victim and they will man the barricades. "The Israelis are Colonial Oppressors with their boot on the neck of the Palestinian victims!" That sums up the view of a lot of them, IMO. One last bit. Lewis gives a recounting by Frum of an Oval office scene: "What moves George W. Bush? These two books are too worshipful to take us very far toward understanding him, but they do give us some revealing details. Religious belief is surely an important factor." "Frum describes a meeting in the oval office last September with five clergymen, three Christian, one Muslim, one Jewish. "You know," Bush told them, I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God. I am here because of the power of prayer." Oh, BTW, "The Raines Watch." Scott Ritter's problem does not exist. The NYT has the AP story on the Net site, but not a word in the paper. "Spiked!"