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"Looks like the "Ambassador" is a whore...Bought and paid for.... "

RR ck out this page from your link, a CHART of the dead citizens of Israel justified by "September 29, 2000 saw an explosion of Palestinian anger and has resulted in an Intifada, Arabic for 'a shaking off'. Every day, innocent Palestinian and Israeli people are being killed. These pages count, graph and give a context to these deaths.

From Sept. 29, 2000 to January 15, 2004: Israeli Dead: 840
Palestinian Dead: 2665

Below are links to pages that graph and detail, in half-month increments, the killings of Palestinians and Israelis. Each page includes a graph of Israeli and Palestinian deaths as well as other details."
http://www.mepc.org/public%5Fasp/resources/mrates.asp

MR.(SICK) Ambassador, get your money up front for this PR job, too...

"Saudi-American Forum: Can you talk about the comments you made on the lawsuit - the $1 trillion suit by 9/11 victims and families against top-ranking Saudis -- talking about how it would further unravel the Saudi-U.S. partnership?

Ambassador Chas Freeman: When I was asked by the lawyers for the National Commercial Bank whether I would be willing to write a statement in connection with the lawsuit, I immediately agreed in part because I believe in the importance in the U.S.-Saudi relationship. I believe this lawsuit is potentially, profoundly disruptive to that relationship. But, mainly, I believe the Constitution gives the executive branch responsibility for conducting U.S. foreign relations and that the United States can only have one government at a time. We may have a separation of powers domestically -- that may be how we reach decisions domestically -- but internationally we can only speak with one voice.

It seemed to me to be completely anomalous to have the executive branch praising Saudi cooperation with us in connection with our struggle against terrorism, obviously arguing with the Saudis for even greater efforts on their part on the one hand, while on the other the courts might accede the views of the plaintiffs that the Saudis are criminals who should be punished and they're incorrigible.

I think the action of a court would jeopardize not only the U.S.-Saudi relationship but more broadly our ability to conduct foreign relations and successfully to cooperate internationally against terrorism. So, I had two motives in joining this and in putting myself forward in public with the full expectation that I would receive the sort of slanderous ignorant attacks that I have received. I've always believed that if you consider yourself a friend of someone or the supporter of a cause, you should not duck that issue, even when standing up is going to cause people to take pot-shots at you."

CHAS. W. FREEMAN, JR.
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