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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (3388)	3/13/2003 12:07:31 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 3467

Mar. 13, 2003 - Powell rejects notion that US policy driven by Jewish interests By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Advertisement WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell flatly rejected on Thursday any suggestion that the US confrontation with Iraq was engineered by Israel or American Jews. Powell told a House Appropriations Subcommittee that the drive to compel Iraq to disarm stretches back over two administrations and 12 years of United Nations resolutions. "It is driven by our own national interest," Powell said under questioning by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Jim Kolbe, who said he wanted to clear up media suggestions that American supporters of Israel - and Israel itself - were driving US strategy. Powell told the subcommittee the US policy "is not driven by any small cabal that is buried away somewhere," nor by a small group of individuals. Among the US goals are helping the UN to "do its job" and concern for the Iraqi people, Powell said. Powell's comments came a day after Rep. Jim Moran apologized for making comments asserting that influential leaders of the Jewish community were pushing the country toward war with Iraq. Some Jewish leaders, including six Jewish members of Congress, have called on Moran to resign, but Moran says he has no intention of doing so.