Who's with President Bush?

townhall ^ | February 18, 2003 | Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

[TLBSHOW]

Who's with President Bush?

President Bush has characterized the choice to be made in this war on terror: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." The stark clarity of this binary decision has served the United States well in marshaling a large number of nations in the fight against al Qaeda and a smaller, but still ample, number for the next phase of this war: the liberation of Iraq.

Regrettably, in the months since September 11, 2001, people who have made no secret of their sympathy for terrorists, provided them financial support, excused their murderous attacks and/or sought to impede the prosecution of the war against them have repeatedly been put in the company of the President. In other words, individuals and organizations who appear to be "with the terrorists" have time and again been allowed to be with the President in the White House and elsewhere.

For example: o On September 20, 2001 -- just nine days after the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was the Muslim representative in a small ecumenical gathering held in the Oval Office.

At the same time, FBI agents were trying to interview him at his house in California since he had declared two days before the attack: "This country is facing a terrible fate....This country stands condemned. It stands condemned like Europe stood condemned because of what it did -- and lest people forget that Europe suffered two world wars after conquering the Muslim lands." His wife told the incredulous agents Yusuf wasn't home, he was with the President. o Six days later, President Bush met in the Roosevelt Room with a Muslim imam by the name of Muzammil H. Siddiqi. Siddiqi is a long-time board member of several organizations in the United States funded by, and closely tied to, Saudi Arabia's radical state religion known as Wahhabism. Two of these groups, including one where Siddiqi still sits on the board, were raided in March 2002 by Federal authorities in pursuit of terrorist financing.

This presidential meeting was all the more puzzling since the imam had shown his true colors by claiming, at a rally the previous October: "America has to learn...If you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.

Please, all Americans. Do you remember that? Allah is watching everyone. God is watching everyone. If you continue doing injustice, and tolerate injustice, the wrath of God will come." o On September 17, 2001, President Bush paid a visit to the mosque in Washington. There he was photographed flanked by Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR has long been an admirer and public defender of terrorist organizations whose attacks against even innocent women and children it sees as legitimate acts of "liberation." Awad has personally declared, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement." o Also in the picture with President Bush at the mosque was Khaled Saffuri, currently chairman of an organization called the Islamic Institute, which he co-founded with conservative activist Grover Norquist.

Saffuri previously served as the development director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it made no bones about using terrorism for political purposes. He went on to become deputy director of the radical American Muslim Council (AMC), under then-director Abduraman Alamoudi -- a publicly declared supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, whose statements of solidarity with these groups prompted the Bush 2000 campaign to return his contributions. Under Saffuri's leadership, the Islamic Institute has attacked the Bush Administration's investigations of radical Muslim groups and closures of organizations suspected of funding terrorists.

The Institute has been funded by groups raided in the above-mentioned terrorist financing investigations. It lobbied intensively against portions of the USA Patriot Act. And Saffuri has personally denounced the President's listing of the Holy Land Foundation as a charity that supported terrorist organizations. He has acknowledged sponsoring the children of suicide bombers through the Foundation, even after its closure by the government.

In addition to the President, a number of his senior subordinates -- including Cabinet officers -- have met, in some cases more than once, with members of the aforementioned and other organizations with troubling attitudes towards jihadist terrorists. A particularly bizarre instance was FBI Director Robert Mueller’s keynote address last year to the American Muslim Council.

The AMC has a long record of activities hostile to the Bush Administration’s prosecution of the war on terror. It has even urged Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI! Nonetheless, according to a press release dated last Thursday, Mr. Mueller has invited the AMC’s chairman, Dr. Yahya Mossa Basha, to attend an upcoming meeting with him and “leaders of major Muslim and Arab-American organizations.”

It is very much in the President's interest -- and the Nation's -- that moderate, law-abiding, peace-loving and patriotic American Muslims be embraced and empowered by the Bush Administration and all those who support it in waging a war on terror, not on Islam.

To do so, however, the Administration must not allow those who are “with” its enemies in that struggle to continue being with the President and his team.

[CyberAnt]

"the whole consevative (sic) movement is brought down"

ROTFLOL!! Really!! Does Frank think he has enough power to accomplish that ...??

And ... just WHO would have the MOTIVE to want to bring the whole conservative movement down ...? Hmmmm?? Now, let me see if I can think of anybody ...?? Geeeee, that would be somebody by the name of Bill & Hillary Clinton; McAuliffe; Daschle ... what a bunch of garbage.

This is the most stupid and ignorant thing I can remember reading in a long time.

Like I said, the more you say the more it proves you're ignorant.

[justshe]

Sorry I do have strong opinions which are more correct than they are wrong. I am proved right all the time are you?

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So......for the fourth time.....do you stand by these opinions?

To: TLBSHOW

You were doing MUCH more than asking questions and have crossed the line:

It does not look like Frank plans to drop it and me I have always wondered why The President and Mr Powell attacked Pat Robertson so hard and calls Islam Peace, looks like that answer is coming rather we like what it is or not. Because Islam isn't peace its a bloody cult.
20 posted on 02/17/2003 11:06 PM PST by TLBSHOW

I think I will have to say this country is being sold out from within and from who is what really saddens me tonight.
23 posted on 02/17/2003 11:27 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Thanks, I was afraid that was going to be my confirmation about President Bush. After refusing to go after Clinton and the CFR signing I have been on a fast track to this point but always hoping I was wrong.

I have fought it tooth and nail, many times standing up for him, but in my heart with my gift when he refused to bring Clinton up on charges in an instant that day the truth was told to me and I have fought it a long time back and forth hoping I was wrong maybe once since I recieved the gift of truth. I have not ever been wrong if I follow my first thoughts and not try and fight them.

I am deeply sadden tonight and I am going to sign off for the evening with this post. Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is correct and he will be slammed but good by these people.
26 posted on 02/18/2003 1:10 AM PST by TLBSHOW

Do you understand what is being implied in this thread? Its been a long day since this thread started and I have done nothing but study all resources that I have and I do understand even better what is implied than I did when I found this story last night at Midnight. I am still doing research and study and I hoped what is being implied would be false. I say I had hoped!
34 posted on 02/18/2003 2:22 PM PST by TLBS

[Jael]

Hey dumped a Christian because a few homosexuals howled? And that's a good thing?

Those people are not conservatives. They don't want to do anything good for America.

This about not kowtowing to only certain lobbys.

[TLBSHOW]

Frank Gaffney is the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C. The Center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan educational corporation established in 1988. Under Mr. Gaffney's leadership, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized as a resource for timely, informed and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters.

Mr. Gaffney also contributes actively to these debates in his capacity as a columnist for the Washington Times and as a monthly contributor to Defense News and Investor's Business Daily. He is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a columnist for American Spectator Online, WorldNetDaily.com and JewishWorldReview.com. He is a featured weekly contributor to Hugh Hewitt's nationally syndicated radio program and appears frequently on national and international television and radio programs. In addition, his op-ed articles have appeared, among other places, in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New Republic,The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsday.

In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO's senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.

From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle. From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Senator John Tower (R-Texas). In the latter 1970's, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.

Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington area.

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me - you have joined this thread late and you don't know what the argument is - I would suggest you just bow out.

[Howlin]

"the whole consevative (sic) movement is brought down"

And guess who thinks they're going to help? :-)

[Jael]

Come on, she an old lady, she needs some help. Her husband was a Vietnam Vet, a hero. Show some loyalty to the folks who fought and died for this country!

[TLBSHOW]

In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy,

[Howlin]

Is it your contention that ONLY Christians should be in government?

[hchutch]

Who appointed YOU the almighty arbiter of which positions/policies are conservative and which are not?

[LurkerNoMore!]

Wow, thanks for the heads-up, Howlin.

Just got home, turned on the TV, and there is Frank Gaffney on CSPAN2. (replay of a terrorism panel)

[Howlin]

Are you under the impression that Frank Gaffney's resume will make you credible just because you posted it?

[bvw]

Did you just say "Niagra Falls"?

[Jael]

I am a conservative and I have the work to prove it. I am loyal to Jesus Christ first and the Constitution second.

If you support the murderous false religion of Islam and all the hell and grief it has spawned, that's your red wagon.

I am proudly pro Jesus Christ and make no apologies for that.

Shame you can't say the same.

[Mo1]

Why don't you call Frank on the phone and see what he says and get to the bottom of it. Or did you just not read catspaws post here. You tell me is Islam a Religion of Peace? I say its not! As for the President it needs to be looked into and Frank is going to do that rather you like it or not.

Nice try Todd .. but you STILL have not answered the questions put to you

As for the Muslisms .. No I don't think they are all evil

But with that said, yes I am FULLY aware that there are a number of them that want to kill us

[ohioWfan]

I'm a conservative, Jael. Just not YOUR kind (thank heavens!)

I hate homosexuality. It's disgusting. It just doesn't keep a person from being able to do a job well.

And btw......this has NOTHING to do with the subject of the thread.

[Fred Mertz]

How's Frank Gaffney coming across on C-SPAN?

[TLBSHOW]

They can't even talk about what Frank wrote its all about slamming fellow freepers! Oh well I was finished with this thread yesterday but thanks to Howlin and her gang I will do even more study on this subject. If Frank is 100% correct then the dice roll where they roll if he is 100% wrong well that is where the dice will roll.

[Jael]

This is too funny! You are going around telling people not to post! ROTFL!

[Howlin]

Well, at least I don't think Mother Teresa went to hell, which is what I understand you think.

And I notice how deftly you changed your statement to me SUPPORTING Islam. Makes it easier for you to hate me, huh?