Posted on 08/23/2006 7:41:55 PM PDT by kristinn
Jeeni Criscenzo, Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives 49th California District seat currently held by Republican nominee Darrell Issa, wrote in a blog entry earlier this month from Amman, Jordan of her support for the so-called insurgency in Iraq.
Criscenzo went to Amman with leaders of the anti-American group Code Pink and Sixties activist Tom Hayden to conspire with a group of anti-American Iraqi parliamentarians.
On August 6, writing in her campaign Web site blog which is linked on the Daily Kos blog, Criscenzo said, "It is important to distinguish between the militia, or death squads and the resistance, particularly when considering the amnesty aspects of the Reconciliation Plan crafted in Cairo last month. Over 95% of the Iraqi people oppose the presence of the U.S. troops in their country and consider the people the U.S. call "insurgents" to be patriotic freedom fighters -- no different that (sic) how we look at the people who fought in our Revolutionary War. Heroic titles go to the victors and if justice is to ever come to the people of Iraq, the people we call insurgents will have to be recognized as the ones who are actually defending their homeland."
Criscenzo brought a film crew with her to Jordan to film campaign ads on the trip.
Link to Criscenzo's blog on Kos
No, she is definetly NOT "one of many." --oneofmany (LOL)
:)
Hey, why limit that to government officials? IMO, the statement betrays incredible incompetency unbecoming a sentient being, and use of the term "moonbat', here, would be an insult to self-respecting bats worldwide.
This woman is dumber than a box of rocks. Obviously a student of "The Smartest Woman In The World™", she's so "smart" that she's wrapped around the end of the scale and come up on the extreme opposite end. She's mentally blinding; it hurts to think like her.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/columns/column080103.shtml
Darrell Issa: Terrorism's Manchurian Candidate
August 1, 2003
I’m a proud conservative Republican from Michigan, but I’m appealing to Californians of all political stripes not to support the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) — funder of the recall effort and the only announced candidate to replace Davis — might be the contemporary, real-life version of Frank Sinatra’s "Manchurian Candidate." Instead of communists, Issa’s allies are radical Islamists and supporters of terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Christians and Jews.
In a short political career, Issa’s statements and actions consistently defend terrorists, terrorist groups and terrorist sponsor states.
Saudi Arabia’s longtime lobbyist, James Gallagher, contributed to Issa’s campaign in November 2002, and Issa tried to overturn key classified evidence portions of President Bill Clinton’s 1995 counterterrorism bill. Issa is also credited with "declawing" the Patriot Act.
Then, there’s Issa’s dance with Hezbollah, an organization that is on the State Department’s terrorist list and one of the largest components of Al Qaeda. In the 1980s, Hezbollah — which means "Party of Allah" — murdered more than 260 U.S. Marines while they slept in Beirut and tortured to death Col. Richard Higgins (in 1990) and CIA attache William Buckley.
Hezbollah endorses "the use of hostages," "suicide in jihad operations" and "the duty of all Muslims to engage in Islamic jihad if it ensures the ultimate goal [of] inflicting losses on the enemy."
Less than a month after Sept. 11, Issa visited Syrian President Bashar Assad, praising Hezbollah and lauding Assad’s policies (Syria is on the State Department’s terrorist list).
The Tehran Times and IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency, the official Iranian news agency) quoted Issa’s statements to Assad in Damascus: "Hezbollah acts legitimately and has never been involved in terrorist activities.... Hezbollah and any other Lebanese group has the right to resist the occupation of its territory.... Hezbollah’s humanitarian and governmental actions were legal.... Such behavior would be customary in any country."
Issa denies the statements, but as a recent Los Angeles Times cover story demonstrates he has a record of stretching the truth — about his military record, his criminal history, his business affairs and his political positions.
In November 2001, for instance, Issa told syndicated columnist Debra Saunders he was vehemently against Arabs suing the airlines and government over profiling. At the same time, he told the rest of the press of his plans to introduce legislation to make it easier for Arabs to collect monetary damages for airline and government profiling.
And Issa’s other statements and actions corroborate their veracity:
Less than a month after Sept. 11, in an Oct. 9, 2001, interview with the Beirut Daily Star’s Ibrahim, during a trip to Lebanon, Issa said, "It is Lebanon which will determine whether the party’s [Hezbollah’s] activities constitute terrorism or resistance ... If [Hezbollah] wants the world to understand that its activities are legitimate, they should say it.... Resistance is a legitimate right recognized [by the U.N.].... I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do." He expressed hope that Hezbollah would "reform" and become a "government" like the P.L.O.
Assad’s state-run SANA (official Syrian news agency) covered Issa’s November 2001 meeting with Assad, quoting Issa as saying: "Hezbollah or any other party has the right to resist occupation."
Occupation? Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon at least a year before, and the U.S. withdrew over a decade earlier.
Issa’s January 2003 actions regarding Israelis captured by Hezbollah asserted the terrorist group’s moral equivalence with Israel. According to The Guardian of London, per Hezbollah’s demand, Issa asked Israel to allow the Red Cross to see captured Hezbollah terrorists in exchange for interceding with Hezbollah to allow the Red Cross to see four Israeli prisoners held by the group.
On Oct. 31, 2001, the London Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported, "U.S. Congressman of Lebanese origin Darrell Issa, during his recent visit to Beirut in the mid of October," conveyed a proposal to Hezbollah leadership to remove Hezbollah from the State Department’s terrorist list and "normalize U.S. relations with" the group. Hezbollah refused the offer.
On May 31, 2003, Issa publicly made a similar proposal to legitimize Hezbollah by giving Lebanon $500 million of taxpayer money to disarm the group and turn it into a political party.
On May 9, 2001, during a House subcommittee discussion of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Extension Act of 2001, Issa praised Hezbollah, "in all candor, for the good things they do, too, the humanitarian, the hospitals, the schools they pay."
On April 14, 2002, Issa told Fox News Channel’s Rita Cosby that Hezbollah has done "some good things" (and he also praised Yasser Arafat).
In November 2001, Issa told the Financial Times of London, "Hezbollah does in fact have a limited scope. You must differentiate ... from other organizations that might have a global reach."
Global? Hezbollah murdered 86 Jews and wounded hundreds of people in Buenos Aires in July 1994, in addition to murdering Israelis and U.S. Marines and civilians in Lebanon and Iran.
In a Sacramento radio interview, Issa said, "They do supply little old ladies with heating oil in the winter and all kinds of other activities," characterizing terrorist Hezbollah as a mere "political party" and "farmers," and adding, "I’d like to see a lot of them just go back to their farms, go back to some honest living."
Then there’s Issa’s strange respect for Arafat and Palestinian terrorists.
Days after Sept. 11, Issa, during his House International Relations Committee’s discussion of fighting terrorism, tried to draw a distinction between "Palestinian groups that are resisting Israeli occupation" and Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
During his November 2001 trip to the Middle East, Issa told his hometown newspaper, the North County Times, that he was "particularly impressed with Arafat."
"He is quite a charismatic individual, despite being a very small man and very old," the congressman said. "He has a wry sense of humor. He gives you food off his plate if you sit next to him."
Arafat’s personal food taster as your next governor?
In April 2003, Issa spoke of Arafat’s "charm" (also in the North County Times).
Issa’s softness on Syrian-sponsored terrorism is legendary, too. Syria is home to several fugitives, including Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, Hamas political director Moussa Abu Marzook, Islamic Jihad chief Ramadan Abdullah Shallah and Jamil Al-Gashey, the only surviving perpetrator of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre — all wanted and/or indicted in the United States. However, Assad refuses their extradition.
Issa vehemently opposes the Syrian Accountability Act, which imposes sanctions on Syria until it stops sponsoring Hezbollah and other terrorists. Issa said Syria is "cooperative."
The Reform Party of Syria said Issa "helps Syria with [its] propaganda campaign" and "objects to Mr. Issa’s presence in Syria. The Baath Party of Syria is duping Rep. Issa and using him as a propaganda tool."
In June 2003, Issa attended the Beirut signing of a major oil deal between Syria and two U.S. firms. The contract states the companies will spend $29 million in Syria and train the state-run Syrian oil company.
Issa hosted a pro-Syrian Capitol Hill event with a pro-Syrian Arab business group. The event was organized by former staffers to Reps. David Bonior and John Dingell, who now lobby for a "change" to U.S. Middle East policy.
After the Iraq War, during one of several frequent Syrian trips, Issa praised Assad, saying, "His word seems to be good."
Darrell Issa wants to be governor of California and ultimately president. With a record like this, do you want to help him?
Why would Issa FUND the recall and then tell people not to support it .. that doesn't make much sense ..??
Isn't Issa Jordanian ..??
Stunning. It seems that the 'out-there' may be emboldened by this.
I thought we called them "terrorists"?
Silly me.
This woman is your typical wacko Demon-crat. They hate the USA and all it represents. The irony is that they are the first people the Islamofascists will kill because they do not like lesbians.
Re: Issa Jordanian, dunno, thought Palestinian, but Palestinian = Jordanian (or should), so same difference...
Re: Issa told people not to support the recall: again, dunno, hadn't noticed him saying that before. What I did know is that he got the ball rolling, and initially seemed to position himself to be its main beneficiary, but then his pro-terrorist sympathies became an issue (along with a car-theft thing that IIRC involved his brother), and he ended up standing forlornly on the side of the road while the machine he'd started rolled on, ultimately to be carjacked by Schwarzenegger at the the very last second, a gambit which kept Feinstein out. On Jay freakin' Leno, IIRC.
I'm surprised no books have been written about the recall... wotta riot. Only in California could a guy who'd been touted as a bright hope for the DemocRat presidential nomination someday go down in such ignominous flames, in a recall won by a musclebound action-star lech, featuring a shrieking limousine-liberal Greek diva, a cross-eyed conservative, an Arab with terrorist friends, a guy who was the original inspiration for the Frito Bandito, and Gary Coleman. Priceless. Only in California, friends. Only in California.
Ah, yes. Remember how, during the Revolution, George Washington would set fire to Anglican Churches, shooting the worshipers as they fled? And of course we all remember the letters from George to Sam Addams explaining that turning American against American via mass murder and igniting civil war would make The Colonies ungovernable and force the British to leave...</BITTER, OUTRAGED SARCASM>
I say we send her ass over to be with them
|
Endorsements |
|
|
Senator Barbara Boxer U.S. Senate from Ca.
Phil Angelides, State of Ca. Treasurer running for Governor
Lt Governor Cruz Bustamante
Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General
http://ag.ca.gov/ag/lockyer.htm
Tom Hayden, advisor to the Congressional Out of Iraq Caucus
SEIU - Service Employees International Union
Jack O'Connell, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Senator Max Cleland, Former US Senator Georgia
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, CA 35 CD
Colonel Ann Wright
US Army (Ret.) and US diplomat who resigned in 2003 in protest of the invasion of Iraq. Read About Col. Ann Wright
On Saturday, April 1, Jeeni Criscenzo received the unanimous endorsement at the pre-endorsement caucus of the Democratic Party. This endorsement recommendation will be forwarded to the California Democratic Party at its convention April 28-30, 2006.
Representative Bob Filner, CA Congressional District 51
http://www.house.gov/filner/
Carl Wood
CA Public Utilities Commissioner 1999-2004, Utility Workers Union of America leader 1986-1999
Progressive Democrats of America http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/criscenzo.php
Democracy for America (DFA) Meetup #23 (San Diego) http://dfa.meetup.com/23/
Progressive Democrats of San Diego
http://pdsandiego.org/index_north.htm
Impeach PAC
http://www.impeachpac.org/endorse-criscenzo
San Diego-Imperial Labor Council
http://www.unionyes.org/Labor%20to%20Neigbor%20Program
UAW - International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Region 5
California Teachers For Academic Excellence.
California Democratic Party
California Labor Federation AFL-CIO
www.workingCalifornia.org
San Diego Democratic Club
www.sddemoclub.org
Democratic Club of Carlsbad & Oceanside (DEMCCO)
www.demcco.org
Democratic Club of Southwest Riverside
www.democratswriverside.com
Asian Pacific Islander Democrats of San Diego County
www.sdapidems.org
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President & CEO Hip Hop Caucus
Sen. Christine Kehoe, CA 39 SD
Sen. Joseph Dunn, CA 34 SD
Sen. Jackie Spier, CA 8 SD
Jess Durfee, San Diego County Chair
Christopher R. Larkin, Candidate CA 77 AD
Mimi Kennedy, Actress, PDA Board of Directors
Marcy Winograd, Candidate, CA 36 CD
Individuals
Garth Anderson - Escondido
Barbara Baenziger - Oceanside
Kathleen Beck - Santa Ysabel
Roland Bleu - La Mesa
Dawn Brosius - Murrieta
Sally Caldwell - Oceanside
Richard Caputo - Julian
Elise Casby - San Diego
Charles Cleveland - Escondido
Colleen Dietzel - San Diego
George Doyle - Oceanside
Randall Driskill - Vista
Edgar Elliott - Oceanside
Maxine Ewig - Temecula
Susan Fischer - Oceanside
William Fischer - Oceanside
Saul Frommer - Murrieta
Laurel Granquist - Julian
Kathleen Hamilton - Temecula
Jeanette Hartmann - Julian
Carol Hilton - Oceanside
Karen Holmgren - Oceanside
Lola Juris - Oceanside
Leigh Mahon - Escondido
Michele Mareck - Escondido
Sydney Mason - Vista
Patrick McLaughlin - Vista
Hyon Moriki-Wood - Temecula
John-Erik Nilsson - Vista
Wren Osborn - El Cajon
Bettie Rikansrud - Julian
John Rolt - Vista
Rachel Rott - Vista
Milton Saier - Encinitas
Edward Schmieding - Fallbrook
Jeanne Shannon - Oceanside
Sue Shin-Moriki - Temecula
Arlene Smith - Julian
Elisabeth Smith - San Diego
Martha Sullivan - Poway
Carolyn Thompsa - Vista
Robert Wheeler - Murrieta
Treneir Woodland - Murrieta
Alberto Zevallos - San Diego
Mario Romero
Willie H. Douglas
Tom Pallow
J. Eric Hereford
Dave Chase
While she's not a serious candidate, that she'd win the Democratic nomination is noteworthy.
ha, well, at this rate that's one thing i got to look forward to.
I was just about to post a similar sentiment. If the Republican National Committee use this information properly, it could benefit Republicans across the board.
I respect her. She is only saying what most democrats(leftists) think. It's like the democrats are acting the 2006 and 2008 elections are in the bag and so they can be outrageous. No attempt to attract any new voters to their party
Typical liberal democrat.
A lying sack of SH*T.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.