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(From Iran) An Open Letter To Senator John Kerry
Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI) ^ | 19 Feb 2004 | SMCCDI

Posted on 02/21/2004 10:45:10 PM PST by XHogPilot

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To: XHogPilot; FairOpinion; Pro-Bush; BagCamAddict; ganeshpuri89; pokerbuddy0; cgk; Sabertooth; ...
Will Kerry or his people even bother to read this? This is a very powerful letter!
21 posted on 02/22/2004 8:30:23 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: gubamyster; FITZ; moehoward; Nea Wood; Joe Hadenuf; sangoo; appalachian_dweller; ...
A must read ping!
22 posted on 02/22/2004 8:31:28 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: XHogPilot
I'm not surprised. Kerry has all the foreign policy expertise of Karter, Klinton, and Gore--that is, expertise in screwing over pro-democracy reformers and propping up murderous dictators.

In the former USSR, Gore and Klinton did not support the true pro-democracy reformers. They funded the corrupt ex-Politburo/mafia so that they could maintain their iron grip on the Soviet people, make them work slave labor, steal their money, and murder them with impunity. This is the foreign policy of the DemonRats, period.

23 posted on 02/22/2004 8:31:42 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (All the good taglines are taken.)
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To: JustPiper
Will Kerry or his people even bother to read this?

Fifty bucks says it wound up at the bottom of the shredder bin after an aide read the first three sentences.

24 posted on 02/22/2004 8:33:22 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (All the good taglines are taken.)
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To: tinamina
Well Kerry has no good policy on foreign affairs nor has he once mentioned Homeland Security
25 posted on 02/22/2004 8:34:26 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Read this!
26 posted on 02/22/2004 8:34:28 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (All the good taglines are taken.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
We then need to mail it to some folks ;)
27 posted on 02/22/2004 8:36:33 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: XHogPilot
Outstanding post. Thanks
28 posted on 02/22/2004 8:39:05 AM PST by PGalt
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To: tkathy
I have come to realization that the Dems don't have any love for terrorist or communist regimes. What they do love is a bogey man lurking under our beds whose threats will one day further empower them.

What they hate is GWB stealing their thunder and removing the threat.

29 posted on 02/22/2004 8:52:13 AM PST by Natural Law
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To: XHogPilot
I just popped off a few dozen emails with this story link to FNC,MSNBC,several at RNC, several to Bush.org, Chicago Times etc. If we get this out someone will pick it up ;)
30 posted on 02/22/2004 9:01:38 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)
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To: Fedora
Thanks for the history!
31 posted on 02/22/2004 9:24:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Oh, yes. Kerry has much to explain.
32 posted on 02/22/2004 9:34:57 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Your friend is your needs answered. --- Kahlil Gibran)
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To: XHogPilot
I very rarely use this word to describe something, but it is an appropriate reaction to this letter: awesome!

Each statement contained therein is more interesting than the next. One that stands out in particular:

For the tyrannical theocracy to survive they have a vested interest in the failure of the United States in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

And those who make up the tyrannical theocracy know who will hand them a failure and whose PACs to fund: The Democrats and their "electable" candidates.

33 posted on 02/22/2004 10:17:27 AM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: F14 Pilot
Ping! Read the SMCCDI's response to Kerry's email to Iran!
34 posted on 02/22/2004 10:30:47 AM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina
Thanks!
35 posted on 02/22/2004 10:32:02 AM PST by F14 Pilot
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To: tkathy
Two entities that are upset with Pres. Bush's policies -- al Qaeda, and the Democrat Party.
36 posted on 02/22/2004 10:48:42 AM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: JustPiper
Will Kerry or his people even bother to read this? This is a very powerful letter!

You can bet that they have read it,then laughed, continued to ignore it, knowing full well the Dem base sides with dictators and murderers and that certain of the great middle won't bother to research it. Basically,Kerry and his henchmen will simply not comment and their mongrels in the press corps won't ask about it.

37 posted on 02/22/2004 11:00:39 AM PST by gatorbait (Yesterday, today and tomorrow......The United States Army)
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To: JustPiper
Well Kerry has no good policy on foreign affairs nor has he once mentioned Homeland Security

But Bush is executive ordering amnesty for illegal Martians as we speak, remember? Isn't that the most pressing thing? Aren't some true and principled people backing Kerry (or his soul mate in the CP) because GWB is a RINO?

Now do some of you see that your principles won't be worth a bucket of cold spit if the Dems and their comrades and enablers win?

38 posted on 02/22/2004 11:04:53 AM PST by gatorbait (Yesterday, today and tomorrow......The United States Army)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
>Thanks for the history!

You're welcome--hope it proves useful. Here's something else I found which seems pertinent to the references to Sen. Biden in the original post--snipped to cut down the length:

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=195020

Biden Buddies Up To Pro-Iran Lobby

Posted March 4, 2002

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Some might call it reaching out to American Muslims. But to many Iranians living in California, a fund-raiser for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) at the home of a prominent pro-Iran lobbyist on Feb. 19 sent a wrongheaded message to the ruling clerics in Tehran.

"When we learned that Sen. Biden was planning to hold a fund-raiser at the California home of Dr. Sadegh Namazi-khah, we immediately contacted his office to express our dismay," a prominent Iranian-American activist tells Insight. Why dismay? "Dr. Namazi-khah is well-known in the Los Angeles area for his support of the ruling clerical regime in Tehran and is one of the regime's leading unofficial lobbyists in America.

[SNIP]

On the eve of the fund-raiser, which brought an estimated $30,000 into Biden's re-election coffers, a Biden staffer told the activist that the senator's staff "had all the facts necessary to make a decision," and he was planning to attend the fund-raiser despite the protests.

[SNIP]

Biden also impressed many of those present with his friendly attitude toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. The senator said that "Iran always wanted to be an ally of the United States and to have good relations with the U.S.," according to Housang Dadgostar, a prominent lawyer. "As Iranian-Americans, we don't want anything to happen to the Iranian government or to the Iranian people as a result of this war on terrorism," says Mohsen Movaghar, a Los Angeles businessman. Both men belong to the 70-member board of directors of Namazi-khah's Iranian Muslim Association of North America (IMAN).

[SNIP]

Namazi-khah and other IMAN board members say Biden's office contacted them to inquire if they would hold a private fund-raiser for the senator, who is up for re-election this year, after meeting with them at a pro-Tehran gala in New York last December. That event was sponsored by the American-Iranian Council (AIC), a pro-regime lobbying group trying to get Congress and the Bush administration to lift the trade embargo on Iran.

The AIC is funded by hefty contributions from Conoco and other U.S. oil companies seeking to get a piece of the potentially lucrative Iranian petrochemicals sector. The oil companies are prevented from working in Iran by the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA), which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1996.

[SNIP]One IMAN board member says the group raises $300,000 to $400,000 per year from members. He insists that they take "no money from the government in Tehran."

California real-estate records show that the group purchased a building at 3376 Motor Ave. in Los Angeles in August 1995 for $925,000 and has spent hundreds of thousands more to build auditoriums and meeting rooms for religious services. It was unclear where the money for these projects originated.

[SNIP]

"If they are lobbying on behalf of the Tehran government they are probably in violation of U.S. law," an FBI source who has prosecuted several related cases tells Insight. But with high-level friends in Washington, IMAN may believe it has purchased immunity.

Norm Kurz, a spokesman for Biden, tells Insight the Delaware Democrat never would meet knowingly with a group known to back a terrorist organization. . .

[SNIP]

The AIC is playing host to a gala at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on March 13, where it will honor Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), the only Republican openly to criticize Bush for his "Axis of Evil" rhetoric.

Also invited, according to AIC, are Sens. Biden and Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.). Biden's staff insisted that the AIC had announced his participation prematurely and that no final decision had been made.

http://www.payk.net/mailingLists/iran-news/html/current/msg07952.html

Bonyaade IMAN, Namazi, Sen. Biden and Sen. Kerry

[SNIP]

Namazee is one of the chief fund-raisers for Sen. Kerry

http://daily.nysun.com/Daily/Skins/NYSun/navigator.asp?BP=OK&GZ=T

[SNIP]

Unfortunately Mr. Nemazee is still advising Mr. Kerry, a spokesman for the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran,Aryo Pirooznia, told The New York Sun yesterday. Everyone remembers in the last of year of the Clinton administration when Mr. Nemazee gave a speech at the AIC calling for the removal of all sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

[SNIP]

Kerry's Fund-Raiser Worries Advocates

[SNIP]

By ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun

Hassan Nemazee, an Iranian American financier based in New York, was on the board of the American Iranian Council when that organization arranged for President Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to apologize for America's role in the 1953 coup that brought the Shah to power in Iran.

[SNIP]

Today Mr. Nemazee is one of the chief fund-raisers for Mr. Kerry.[SNIP]

In 1999, President Clinton nominated Mr. Nemazee to be his ambassador to Argentina.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee blocked his confirmation after Forbes magazine ran a story critical of many of his business relationships.

[SNIP]

THE SUN 1/28/2004 6:18:38 PM (PST)

39 posted on 02/22/2004 12:28:19 PM PST by Fedora
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The more I think of the whole "amnesty" speech the more I think it was a trail balloon. We really have no idea about the motivations for bringing this issue up , so close to a major election.

We don't even know if the whole purpose behind it was to get Conservatives up in arms.

It makes no sense.. I think it backfired, whatever the reason was. And we already see backpedaling.

I never believed that President Bush even believed what he was saying about jobs Americans wouldn't take.

I agree that the Amnesty issue has pushed some people too far, and that not reelecting President Bush would be a major blow for the United States. SO there is some work to be done re gaining those Conservatives who ran off.

I don't think many angry Conservatives are backing Kerry.

I guess you could make the argument that third party voters would in fact be electing him de facto, but I don't see them campaigning for Kerry. I just don't think that is fair to say.

I think there are some confused Vets, who are angry about the pension pay vrs. disability pay issues, but I don't know that they were ever Republicans in the first place.

The real issue is that if the President is going to loose a huge group of people based upon an "amnesty" platform, then he and his advisers need to rethink how much they really want to push that issue.

I think you will see many "third party "voters come back as we hear about the President backing off from Amnesty.

I don't think the President is a RINO- I think he is trying to get reelected in a scary world of voter fraud, Democratic dirty tricks ,and mass manipulations by the left.

Perhaps we have SOME of the noise makers to thank for getting the message out that pushing amnesty isn't going to get him there.

No one knows for sure in the world of double reverse.

President Bush is not Hitler, he is not Satan, he is not a leftist, he is not a liberal.

Anyone saying those kinds of things are not angry Conservatives, they are misinformed at best.

40 posted on 02/22/2004 12:41:36 PM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Every heart beats true for the red ,white and blue!)
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