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."
Dana I think intaked even more of the evil weed than I did (I well went to a Libertarian convention in Philly back around 1970 with the son of a very famous personage, and there was Dana, stoned out of his mind, talking about what America needed was a "joint" session of Congress. I could go on, but I won't. Who is more brain damaged? You be the judge.
That frontpagemag.com article was truly frightening. The best pothead story I heard was from a dental hygenist who was in the same dorm as Dan Marino. She said he was a huge pothead. She said his "gorgeous blue" eyes were almost always shut.
I could go on, but I won't.
Why not? You suck.
"intaked"? Don't you mean "intook"?
I am telling the truth. I, and I assume Dana, at some point realized our aging bods needed vitamins more than THC, or whatever, and moved on. I first knew Dana from high school, when he was in Young Americans for Freedom, when there was this rather nasty libertarian versus traditional values types fight. That was right before the drug craze. I was there at the creation.
Intook sounds like that rather nasty senator from Oklahoma, or that Congressman from Oklahoma City.
Must have been a pretty high-powered high school.
There are undercurrents of anti-Semitism running all through the Democratic Party, and they (the dimwitted Dems) hate Bush so badly they can't even recognize it for what it is.
For example, at the office where I work, many Dems constantly put down Israel and the tough Jewish anti-terrorist attitudes ---- as if it were the Jews fault they are being attacked by Muslim extremists intent on taking over the world.
The undercurrent of anti-Semitism is especially virulent amongst black Americans due to their overt support for the new black Muslims.
The thing that blows my mind is that many of the Dems who spout out hateful anti-Jewish comments are themselves Jews.
It just goes to show how much of a religion the leftist movement has really become.
This is the same as CAIR condemning terrorist attacks by jihadis "because it makes Muslims look bad."
Well, the head of that little project one Timothy Leary, who became the darling of the MSM. I still remember the debates that he and G Gordon Liddy use to have on TV. And can you guess WHO was considered the KOOK.
You're not only off topic, you're on the wrong planet.
Dean doesn'y have any other type of response than "angry".
Conyers knew what every one of his howling moonbat witnesses was going to spew on Friday. When a caller to C-SCAM Friday AM asked Conyers if he was going to invite witnesses like Tommy Franks to testify before his little panel of Bolsheviks, the answer was an emphatic NO.
Ron Paul I give a pass to, because he is consistent with his isolationism, but McKinney is the one who suggested Bush knew about 9/11 before Dean did. I wonder what they had on Majette to get her to run the unwinnable Senate campaign.
The left on race and religion
The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people…They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party
Howard Dean
There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word
Senator Robert Byrd
Argument 4: "There are also 'white Jews'… The fact that one calls the crooks among us 'white Jews' is proof that being a Jew implies something bad. Kurt Hilmar Eitzen,
"Zehn Knüppel wider die Judenknechte," Unser Wille und Weg (6) 1936, pp. 309-310.
Does Wayne State still have the reputation that you can't fling a dead rat without hitting a Communist faculty member?
Learned that all back in college during the heyday of the Johnson administration. The RAT party spews forth group think talking points constantly and to be a loyal RAT party member you must echo those talking points constantly. Do that often enough and it takes over control of a person's being; even if it's self hate and loathing.
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