Posted on 06/18/2005 6:13:59 PM PDT by SandRat
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 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."
Who yanked on your leash, Howierd?
Got a little too left of left, did ya?
Rep. John Conyers 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.
"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."
Too late.
We now know that fruitcakes come in bunches.
And that they come from the same damn political party.
Give Dick Turbin some more tongue, ok?
DEMOCRAT - the party of the Anti-America, the party of the Anti-Christ, the party of Anti-logic / reason / common sense.
But they are totally for anything ANTI-GWB and anything that makes this country look bad.
*&%^)(*^& 'em all.
LVM
Then you've got Peres in Israel saying that Israel should give guns to the PA. Does the slogan "Never Again" mean anything?
It should,.... but I wonder just how many still have the fire in their belly that the citizens of Warsaw had or those that fought to make the Exodus had or fought the 1948 War against Arab Legions had.
They took a vote the other day in the House of Representatives ---it had something to do with the treatment of Israel and the Jews by the UN and the Security Council, I think...
I was more of a statement of backing Israel and it right to fairness...
anyway, the vote was something like 450-2
The two that voted against it were Ron Paul (I) of Texas, and Cynthia McKinney (D)---whose father had publically blamed the Jews for the worlds ills and McKinney said in 2001, that the Jews were in on the 9/11 attack...
Demented Howard Dean, leading the Democrat Party in political HATE SPEECH, said, "The entire Democratic [sic]Party remains committed to fighting against such bigotry."
hypocrite:
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
hypocrite:
a person whose actions contradict their stated or internal beliefs.
"does not want the Jewish liberals ... putting their checkbooks away."
Exactly. Americans who don't belong to a Democratic constituency can stuff it, as far as Dean is concerned.
He has no problem with bigotry against the American military, or Republicans, or traditional Christians.
BINGO! If Manhattan and Malibu stop writing checks the Democrats are done.
BINGO! If Manhattan and Malibu stop writing checks the Democrats are dead in the water.
Sorry for the blank post.
whoops
I found it--
H.R. 2745 by Rep. Steve Chabot-Ohio
Directs the US Ambassodor to the UN to oppose anti-semitic statements and anti-Israel resolutions to the UN...
and Ron Paul and Cynthia McKinney both voted "NO"
Conyers (who, if there were any justice, would be working in a convenience store) is the second greatest embarrassment to Michigan in Congress. The first is Carl Levin. And on top of all this (poor me) Levin's hideous brother is my Congressman! I lament.
Ron Paul isn't funny anymore. It seems everytime he votes with Republicans he issues a half-page press release. Everytime he votes with Democrats, he has a press conference, issues a 5 page press release filled with tortured logic and is generally insufferable. And he never just abstains.
I think I know Paul's game and it isn't Libertarian and it isn't pretty. The fact that he's well-published in lewrockwell should give some clue. What you are talking about is a nonbinding resolution of May 2, 2002.
Those voting no: Byrd, Hollings; Abercrombie, Bonior, Boucher, Condit, Conyers, DeFazio, Dingell, Hilliard, Inslee, Jackson, Jr., Kleczka, Barbara Lee, McKinney, George Miller, Obey, Rahall, Fortney Pete Stark.
The Republicans to vote against it were Ron Paul, Thomas Petri, Dana Rohrabacher and Nick Smith.
The legislation stated the US' solidarity with Israel with regard to terrorism and cited "the number of Israelis killed during that time [since September 2000] by suicide terrorist attacks alone, on a basis proportional to the United States population, is approximately 9,000, three times the number killed in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001."
Paul's statement on this includes some choice statements: "legislation that clearly and openly favors one side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"; "This kind of numbers game with the innocent dead strikes me as terribly disrespectful and completely unhelpful. "; "It is, when speaking of the dead, the one-sidedness of this bill that is so unfortunate."; "it is bad enough that we are intervening at all in this conflict, but this legislation strips any lingering notion that the United States intends to be an honest broker"; "What incentive does Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat or his organization have to return to the negotiating table if we as "honest broker" make it clear that in Congress’s eyes, the Palestinians are illegitimate terrorists?"
He believes that "Constitutionally" we shouldn't get involved in overseas conflicts and yet gets quite exorcised over one particular conflict and cares very much how it plays out and who wins. Not to mention his laughable naivete regarding Arafat.
He could have abstained and yet chose not to. That, and his incessant press conferences, tell me a lot about Ron Paul.
I have always been leery of ole Ron Paul---he kind of reminds me of a space alien....someone whose thought processes just don't equate with ours....
Other than the Dim Party?
The only Republicans that I recognize that show up frequently are Spence Abraham, Darrell Issa, Ron Paul, Tom Petri, Dana Rohrbacher and John Sununu. I know Abraham, Issa and Sununu are ethnically Arabic, so they'd look quite strange not supporting them. Dana Rohrbacher has had some troubling ties. But it is fascinating that the Democrats on the list are the total moonbats.
Oh, and the president of the AALC? One James Zogby.
I saw James Zogby's act a week ago Friday at that sham Patriot Act hearing---he wasn't even hiding his hate-America thoughts...
That's why I said, if Ron Paul had agreed with Kookcinich and Abercrombie, he should have just issued a press release. By standing with them, he endorses their point of view. But I'm not fooled by his "principle" anymore.
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