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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (19610)	3/12/2003 5:29:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 25898

The Judeofascist warmongers gang up on the whistleblower.... March 12, 2003 Moran's remarks on Jews stoke debate By David R. Sands THE WASHINGTON TIMES Rep. James P. Moran's remarks on the influence of American Jews on the Bush administration's hard line against Iraq have put a public face on a bitter and intensely personal debate among policy-makers and pundits over the motivations of those pushing a new war in the Middle East. The Alexandria Democrat has apologized profusely for his March 3 comment that there would be no military strike against Saddam Hussein "if it were not for the strong support of the [American] Jewish community." But some argue that Mr. Moran did not go far enough with his apology. Both the White House and senior Democratic leaders in Congress were swift to condemn Mr. Moran's comments. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called the remarks "shocking. They are wrong, and they should not have been said." Charges of "dual loyalty" and countercharges of anti-Semitism have become common in the feud, with some war opponents even asserting that Mr. Bush's most hawkish advisers - many of them Jewish - are putting Israel's interests ahead of those of the United States in provoking a war with Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. "A stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war," said Richard Stengel, a columnist with Time magazine's online edition. "It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neoconservative faction in the Bush administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community." MSNBC talk-show host Chris Matthews said war supporters in the Bush Pentagon were "in bed" with Israeli hawks eager to take out Saddam. That line of argument has spurred a furious counterattack, with many saying that some of the criticism has crossed the line from legitimate policy debate to classic anti-Semitism. "The Moran argument is outrageous on its face," said Mitchell G. Bard, executive director of Bethesda-based American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and a former editor for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "President Bush has always said he is pursuing his policy to protect American lives, not to aid Israel," he said. "The idea that Israel or its American supporters can convince a president of the United States to go to war when he doesn't want to is ridiculous." [snip] washtimes.com Of course, "The idea that Israel or its American supporters can convince a president of the United States to go to war when he doesn't want to is ridiculous." But the idea that Israel together with its American supporters can BLACKMAIL a president of the United States to go to war when he doesn't want to is self-evident.... () Gus () Message 18630495