Dean Condemns 'Anti-Semitic Literature' (passed out at Conyers Downing St. forum yesterday)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/17/05 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON - A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration's Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday.

"We disavow the anti-Semitic literature, and the Democratic National Committee stands in absolute disagreement with and condemns the allegations," Dean said in a statement posted on the DNC Web site.

Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, organized the forum on Thursday at the Capitol to publicize and discuss the so-called Downing Street memo. That document suggests that the Bush administration believed that war with Iraq was inevitable and that the administration was determined to use intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The Sunday Times of London has reported that the prewar document, which recounts a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair's national security team, was leaked from inside the British government. The White House has rejected the memo's assertions.

Conyers' event occurred in a small Capitol meeting room, and an overflow crowd watched witnesses on television in a conference room at DNC headquarters. According to Dean, some material distributed within the DNC conference room implied that Israel was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

One witness, former intelligence analyst Ray McGovern, told Conyers and other House Democrats that the war was part of an effort to allow the United States and Israel to "dominate that part of the world," a statement Dean also condemned.

"As for any inferences that the United States went to war so Israel could 'dominate' the Middle East or that Israel was in any way behind the horrific September 11th attacks on America, let me say unequivocally that such statements are nothing but vile, anti-Semitic rhetoric," Dean said.

"The inferences are destructive and counterproductive, and have taken away from the true purpose of the Judiciary Committee members' meeting," he said. "The entire Democratic Party remains committed to fighting against such bigotry."

[em2vn]

Are you saying that Ralph Nader called someone a nigger? If so when and where?

[sirthomasthemore]

The "white man's Christian Party" is controlled by Jews.
Who knew? :-)

[NormsRevenge]

lolol

[skinkinthegrass]

If so when and where?...Nader's very unpleasant N-gagement (Ralph uses the "N word")..use FR search

[Duke Nukum]

Obviously, these are DUmmies or NewbieDems. The rule is:

First

you get their vote

Then

you throw them overboard.

If you throw them overboard before you get their vote (no matter who "they" are) then chances are you wont be getting their vote.

There must be a catastrophic brain drain in Democrat circles.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

They re surprised? Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas.

Diva's Husband

[Moorings]

Its incredible!! The dems are really self-destructing. There is something huge every day it seems, and they have to apologize every day. They are sharing the burden of being the idi@t of the day- Dean, Durbin, Conyers, Kennedy e.t.c.

[finnman69]

Bwahahahahaha this is too funny. They are already requiring damage control.

[mabelkitty]

Dean denies because he got caught.

[mabelkitty]

Did you read where Sharpton gave Nader a pass on using the "N" word?
He used it like he was in "like" company that wouldn't leak it to the press. And leak they did.

And Sharpton defended him and sat on his hands.

Can you believe this??

[Baraonda]

Dean Condemns 'Anti-Semitic Literature'

Dean is a loony.

[Malsua]

"Wait till they get a load of me."

[Shermy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601570.html

Here's the Milbank article. Thanks, it's funny!

[mabelkitty]

Someone had to create it.
Someone had to get approval to spend the money.
Someone had to write the checks at the DNC.
Someone hired the printers.
Someone had to find the volunteers to work the event.
Someone had to have a table to set it up.
Someone had to know the intended audience.
Someone had to know it would be acceptable for the type of event.

Dean and Conyer denials are lies. They got caught. End of story.

[Shermy]

Israel? Yes, there is a people with a country with great wealth and tremendous influence in Washington that we have fought wars for and which Gulf War II helped significantly.

Country? Kuwait.

[newconhere]

Wow! I would like to know who distributed this literature? Where are the republicans? We need a quick response team? Who is in charge here?

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks!

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean speaks at the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin's 23rd annual convention in Houston Friday June 17, 2004. (AP Photo /Michael Stravato)

[ROTB]

>Along with the blacks, and feminists, and homosexuals and
>labor and criminals and......

atheists, lawyers, non-science professors, actors, ...

[JulieRNR21]

Democrat Conyers is for the release of Mumia Abu Jamal. Jamal is a convicted cop killer on death row in Pennsylvania. Conyer is playing up to his large Muslim population constituency. I would say Conyers is pretty close to a racist. He started the all black congressional caucus. That is racist

Yes, he is and he excluded former OK Republican Congressman JC Watts from the black caucus....because he's a Republican JC was not 'black' enough to qualify.

[Unam Sanctam]

"The entire Democratic Party remains committed to fighting against such bigotry."

On the other hand, if you want to hand out some really vile anti-Christian hate literature, we at the DNC welcome that with open arms...