Posted on 04/20/2002 6:19:30 PM PDT by ArmoredCav
Terrorist ties
Web posted Saturday, April 20, 2002
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Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Who besides U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., would seek to spread the inflammatory notion that President Bush may have known in advance about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but did nothing because he wanted a war to enrich his friends in the energy and defense industries? The answer is, organizations or individuals sympathetic to extremist Islamic or pro-Palestinian groups. So perhaps it should be no surprise - although it is still shocking - to learn McKinney's campaign war chest is awash in money from Arabs or Arab groups, but not a dime from Jews or Jewish groups (check out opensecrets.org).
In fairness, it shouldn't be assumed all her donors with Mideastern names are linked to extremist anti-Israel, anti-American causes. Some could be Arab-Americans or black Muslims with pro-American views.
But many clearly aren't, such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Both of those groups have ties to Hamas and Hezbollah, the radical anti-Semitic Palestinian groups that are most certainly terrorists.
It also should be noted that McKinney wasn't the only politician to receive contributions from Muslim organizations or individuals with ties to terrorism, but other politicians - including George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton - returned the money not long after they received it. McKinney has not.
And what do you make of this? McKinney received nearly $3,000 from radical Arabs and Arab groups on the very date of the terrorist attack, Sept. 11. The congresswoman says she wants to know what President Bush knew and when did he know it regarding the events of Sept. 11. Wouldn't it be more appropriate for her to answer the question: Why did Arab groups feel the need to pay her thousands of dollars on the day of the worst attack ever on our country?
Disclosure reports supplied by the Federal Elections Commission and the Georgia Secretary of State's Office show that of 397 contributors who gave more than $101 each to McKinney's 2000 re-election campaign, 83 were Arab or Mideast connected. That means a whopping 21 percent of her most generous donors are Arab connected, says the Southeastern Legal Foundation which recently exposed her radical ties.
No wonder she's becoming an America-hating apologist for Mideastern terrorism. It's what's keeping her political war chest stocked - with blood money.
McKinney's current committee assignments are the House International Affairs and Armed Services Committees. One of her staffers -- until he was forced to resign over the flap over her letter to the Saudi prince -- was a Palestinian. Seems to me a staffer with Arabist loyalties would have access to very interesting information because of McKinney's membership in those two committees. She's been on the International Affairs Committee since she entered the House in '93, and her studies were in that field. But she joined the Armed Services Committee just in the past couple of years. Why?
I think Condi should have a little talk with her.
She must be strapped to every democrat in every race in every district.
Make the Dems refute her, or say they're on her side.
The only way she will be put out of office is if she is convicted of a crime. Her district is a hogepoage of various fruitloops like the Emory University area (even if they are commies, they should know better, but they ain't too bright either), the largest illigal alien community in the entire south, and a large number of upper middle class blacks who got their government jobs through affirmative action.
This?
McKinney received nearly $3,000 from radical Arabs and Arab groups on the very date of the terrorist attack, Sept. 11
If McKinney's "I have no evidence, but...." is sufficient to warrant investigating the President, then there is more than enough cause to investigate her ties to terrorist money.
BTW, I found excerpts from her challenger's position papers and copied them to my post; I saw nothing in them that I could not support. She would be a vast improvement.
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