Posted on 04/15/2002 2:41:43 PM PDT by reformjoy
April 12, 2002
Dear Mr. President:
We write out of deep concern over your response to the recent events in the Middle East. While we appreciate the importance of sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region, we are troubled by certain developments that have occurred during his trip. By urging the resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), before the PA officially abandons their policy of suicide homicides against civilian populations, you have dramatically changed your steadfast policy towards not meeting with Chairman Arafat until he commits to a cease?fire.
As long as Arafat continues to support and fund terrorists, it is difficult to conceive that any progress can be made from meeting with him. Most worrisome, a meeting between Secretary Powell and Chairman Arafat in light of today's attack in Jerusalem validates the contention that Arafat is gaining ground through his strategy of terror.
If Secretary Powell meets with Chairman Arafat, we hope that the Secretary will make it clear that this is his final opportunity. In the past, Mr. Arafat has proven himself to be unreliable in following up with commitments to peace. Consequently, we believe that Secretary Powell should demand that Mr. Arafat act to eradicate the terrorist networks operating under his authority. Secretary Powell should make clear that if he does not comply, the United States will sever all ties with him.
Finally, we are dismayed by the pressure on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian towns before the Israeli military has had a chance to complete its operations. As the United States knows from its experience in Afghanistan, an operation of this kind takes time. If Israel is not allowed to complete its campaign, more Israeli lives will be vulnerable to future rounds of suicide bombings. If there is to be peace, Israel needs to isolate those elements of the Palestinian Authority that threaten its existence.
Thank you for your attention to our concerns. We look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Schumer
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Susan Collins
Gordon Smith
Jon Corzine
Please rest assured that I have avoided making the same mistakes the prior administration had by inviting Arafat to dinner and making him comfortable at Camp David. I know and you knew at the time that Arafat is a terrorist and I am careful to hold him at arms length nor will I accept campaign donations from him or his party as you did. Please don't lecture me on the Middle East as you or your husband were certainly not experts and are in no position to instruct.
Thanks again but no thanks
G.W. Bush
I had to sit with my mouth wide open for ten minutes when I read this! I hope you had someone else do your taxes. You are so wrong.
Well shumer and hillary are showing their love for Israel.
Between Arafat, the clinons, and shumer, i would take Arafat any time.
Once again she will use the Jews like a two dollar whore and discard them in like manner when they serve her purpose.
Did they under-estimate him again, or did she anticipate that it has often been the democrat's mistake to do so?
My gut tells me Bush is a step ahead of all the rats.....but I've been wrong before.
A one-term Senator is a nobody.
Hillery! does NOT consider herself a mere mortal like the rest of us.
"an operation of this kind takes time. If Israel is not allowed to complete its campaign, more Israeli lives will be vulnerable to future rounds of suicide bombings"
The above statement from the letter just shows you how two-faced these people are. Besides, aren't these the same people who were calling for the President to be "engaged". Now that he is, they are unhappy about that. There is no pleasing these people, and I cannot figure out why we ever try.
Hillary is still hungry for power. Bill didn't get it for her, so now she is playing the Congress; or at least anyone in the congress who will listen to her whining. First of all, Hillary's agreeing with the President to his face is just a game; all the time she is stabbing him in the back, and the antics of Daschle are the result of her directions. She still calls the shots in the dem/lib party. Also, I believe she is behind the McKinney fiasco too. These people are so power hungry, they will DO ANYTHING, to bring down the President's numbers. So far, nothing is sticking.
Why isn't anything sticking? If you want that answer, you will have to go all the way back to impeachment. I'm sorry, but we have to revisit that mess in order to find this answer. During impeachment the dems/media were screaming all over the place that 75% of the public didn't want Clinton removed from office, and they thoughtfully paraded their polls to prove their point. Well, almost exactly one year later, the numbers were in total reverse. Suddenly, 75% of the public now thought leaving the president in office was a mistake. Why did that happen? Well ... during that year, the public had been made aware of a lot of the mischief the president had been in and their opinion of him began to change.
The dems have never figured this out - they are still under the assumption that the same 75% still want Bill to be in office. They are delusional, but it explains why they are throwing anything they can think of at President Bush and none of it is working any more.
This current attack doesn't have anything to do with how the President is treating Israel or treating Arafat. It has to do with just throwing anything they can think of at the President to see if the public will rally around it.
The public is finally awake - it's only the dems who haven't figured it out yet.
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