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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (9789)	4/8/2003 11:08:28 AM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Clearing the air: frontpagemag.com <<Kerry's delusion; America's Palestinian Enemy; Astounding Historians - Friday, April 04, 2003 5:55 PM Kerry's Delusion Those who say that the Bush Administration's failed diplomacy caused the war in Iraq -- people like Senator John Kerry and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle -- should have their heads examined as this chart shows. (Be warned: the title of the chart is ironic.) Their presumption is that if President Bush and Secretary Powell had been more patient and given inspectors more time to show that Saddam was not cooperating in disarming his regime, permanent Security Council members France, Russia and China -- all wielding a veto power -- would have voted to go to war or least agreed not to obstruct a UN resolution to that effect. The chart, which is sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Initiative site, should quickly dispel all such delusions. Russia, France and China accounted for 82% of all weapons sales to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1973 and 2002. These are Saddam's allies. What diplomacy would persuade them to expose their role in arming Saddam and jeopardize their multi-billion dollar oil contracts with the regime? The Palestine Authority Names Square For Killer of 4 US Soldiers The following report was prepared by Palestinian Media Watch: Celebrating of the killing of 4 American soldiers by an Iraqi suicide bomber; Palestinian Authority officials have named the center of the Jenin Refugee Camp after that suicide bomber - Ali Alna’amani. [In addition to the moral issue, it should be remembered that Palestinian refugee camps are UN property and funded by the UN, so that all expenses involved in the name change may be from the UN budget. Likewise it should be checked to what extent UN salaried officials are involved in agreeing to the name change and implementation.] The following is the announcement in the PA newspaper: “The officials, the institutions and the National Islamic Forces in the Jenin Refugee Camp ... decided to continue the blood donor campaign for Iraq and decided to name the center of the refugee camp “Ali al-Na’amani” after the Shahid [died for Allah] who was the first suicide bomber in Iraq...” [killing 4 American soldiers at a checkpoint.] Al Quds, April 2, 2003. (Itamar Marcus - pmw.org.il ) Astounding Historians On Saturday, C-Span ran coverage of the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Memphis. At a panel called "Historians Reflect on the War" (rant on the war would have been more accurate), leftwing professor after leftwing professor strode to the podium to worry about McCarthylike suppression of their speech (what they meant was that people were finding their attacks on American in time of war offensive). Here's a summary of the result from the History Network: "After a feisty debate, a group of some fifty historians decided to try to persuade the executive board of the OAH to adopt the following resolution in support of free speech: "In view of the threat to free speech in the current climate, the OAH executive board affirms the centrality of dissent in American history and the necessity of open debate over important issues of public policy, including U.S. foreign policy, for maintaining the health of this democracy. The resolution was approved by the group shortly after 7pm at a meeting arranged by Historians Against the War (HAW), an organization formed in January at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association." Now here's the kicker. In a room full of historians there was not a single dissenting voice from the far left views expressed (I define "far left" as left of the Democratic Party, which is left enough for me). And the fact that is that these astounding hypocrites have themselves imposed the longest and most successful blacklist in American history against scholars who do not toe their party line. The absence of conservatives at the OAH meeting and on the faculties of these universities at which these historians do the hiring is prima facie evidence of an actual suppression of speech, quite unlike the problem they face of having people recognize their reprehensible views for what they are. When this generation of radical historians started out they wanted to make the university relevant. What they've succeeded in doing is making themselves irrelevant. I never saw a bunch of educated people so out of touch with reality as was on display on this particular podium.