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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vitas who wrote (4859)	2/1/2003 10:52:29 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

First priority: American Jewry rides and/or influences the political tide as it best benefits Israel, not America! The Jews and President Bush, By Jamie Glazov, Front Page Magazine, January 31, 2003 "In the last election, American Jews voted 80% for Al Gore and the party that engineered the Oslo disaster. Since then, President Bush has declared war on terrorism and identified Yasser Arafat and the Palestine authority as terrorists. In the last year, moreover, there has been a wave of anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad coming from the left. One would think that these developments would affect the traditional alignments of Jews with the left. Have they? And what is at the root of the traditional Jewish attraction to the left? To discuss these and other questions, Frontpage Symposium has invited Ken Weinstein, Vice President and Director of Hudson Institute's Washington, DC office; Mona Charen, a syndicated columnist whose new book Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First will be published in February; Jeff Jacoby, an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe; Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and Marc Rauch, a multi-award winning TV/film writer, producer, and director ... Brooks: There is no doubt that the principled and committed support for Israel that President Bush has demonstrated since taking office is having a profound effect in the Jewish community. The leadership of President Bush and the Republicans in Congress with regard to Israel provides a stark contrast to the support offered by the Democratic party recently. It is this strong contrast that is causing many people in the Jewish community to take an open-minded look at supporting the Republican party and this is one reason why we believe that there is a significant political shift taking place in the Jewish community today away from the Democratic party ... Jacoby: Without a medical degree and a lot of clinical experience, I wouldn't presume to explain the psychopathology of an anti-Zionist Jew. There is something profoundly sad about a Jew who has so internalized the hostility of anti-Semites that he joins them in demonizing Israel. Profoundly sad, and potentially dangerous. Charen: Anyone who wants to see any nation destroyed is a moral cretin. I don't think there are very many Jews who actively wish Israel harm, but there are alas a great many who are capable of deluding themselves about the nature of the enemies with whom Israel must contend." frontpagemag.com

To: Vitas who wrote (4859)	2/1/2003 10:55:43 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Right. They produced the information a day or two ahead of that deadline. Vitas, that's not a deadline to begin a war. That's what I want you to show me. But you can't!

To: Vitas who wrote (4859)	2/1/2003 10:57:35 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

Here's some of the extremely sad nitty-gritty which could well accompany a US-led invasion move: Iraqi Threatens to Send Suicide Attackers By Associated Press February 1, 2003, 1:15 PM EST BERLIN -- Iraq will unleash thousands of suicide attackers against the United States if American troops invade, a senior Iraqi official was quoted Saturday as saying. Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said in a German magazine interview that Iraq's ability to withstand U.S. military might was "unlimited" and that American ground troops would face tough resistance. "We have no long-range missiles or bomber squadrons, but we will deploy thousands of suicide attackers," Ramadan told the weekly Der Spiegel. "These are our new weapons, and they will be used not only in Iraq." Other Arab countries would help defend Iraq in case of war, inflaming the entire Middle East, he said. "This part of the world will become a sea of resistance and danger for the Americans." Ramadan reiterated Iraq's insistence that it no longer has weapons of mass destruction, and said his country is not working on an atomic bomb. U.N. inspectors "can dig around wherever they want, but they won't find anything because there simply isn't anything there anymore," he said. Despite such denials, German intelligence officials believe Iraq has truck-borne weapons labs for making chemical or biological weapons, another German magazine reported Saturday. The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, August Hanning, has briefed lawmakers about the existence of such labs, telling them that Iraq bought parts that could be used for the purpose from German companies, the weekly Focus said. Reports of Iraqi mobile labs for biological weapons have surfaced in the past. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last year that Iraq had the technology to make them, and other U.S. officials and former U.N. weapons inspectors have said that Saddam Hussein's government has probably developed them. Focus gave no further details, and German intelligence officials could not be reached for comment Saturday. But the Federal Intelligence Service issued a rare statement this week confirming it has given German lawmakers closed-door briefings on Iraq and is supplying the weapons inspectors with information gathered from its own sources. However, the statement indicated the agency questions the reliability of some of the information it receives on Iraq and said it had discussed that point with other intelligence services, including the Americans. Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press newsday.com