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Maureen Dowd: 'Influential Jews' Pushing Iraq War
NewsMax ^ | 10/7/02 | Limbacher

Posted on 10/07/2002 9:03:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was on the hot seat Monday morning for a paragraph buried deep in her Sunday column where she seemed to blame "influential Jewish conservatives" for persuading President Bush to go to war in Iraq.

"Influential Jewish conservatives inside and outside the administration have been fierce in supporting a war on Saddam, thinking it could help Israel by scrambling the Middle East map and encouraging democracy," contended the Irish Catholic liberal.

Dowd's suggestion that Jews in the Bush administration were putting Israel's interests over the U.S.'s raised eyebrows on the "Imus in the Morning" program.

Asked about the Times columnist's "influential Jewish conservatives" reference, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, a Dowd soulmate, insisted, "Maureen Dowd doesn't have an anti-Semitic bone in her body."

But moments later, when NBC Pentagon reporter Jim Miklaszewski was asked to explain what he thought Dowd meant by the remark, he said she was talking about a "what many would call a cabal within the administration."

IMUS: Who are these Jews 'Mo' Dowd's referring to as influencing Bush on the war? Wolfowitz? Richard Perle? Who?

MIKLASZEWSKI: Well, certainly there's that - what many would call a cabal within the administration - of not only those who are very much in favor of going into Iraq and removing Saddam Hussein a la an invasion - and one of the strongest voices within the administration, of course, is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. (End of Excerpt)

In the next breath, however, Miklaszewski suggested that it was wrong to single out Bush administration Jews for supporting that war, reminding Imus, "But, you know, Secretary Rumsfeld is clearly part of that crowd too, as is Vice President Dick Cheney."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iraq; jews; maureendowd
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To: Campion
Something about that did not sound right. Thanks for the clarification. Planned parenthood's "Token Catholics (in name only)" sounds a bit more accurate.
61 posted on 10/07/2002 9:33:18 PM PDT by CARepubGal
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To: section9
an absolute misreading of everything I stand for.

Chris, I have indeed misread your position. Thank you for clarifying it for me in detail; I agree with your perspective, and mine is much the same.

Regards, TQ.

62 posted on 10/07/2002 9:33:48 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: rosebud
Could be you are spot on!
Great comment!
63 posted on 10/07/2002 9:36:47 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: TopQuark
Roger that.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

64 posted on 10/07/2002 9:44:22 PM PDT by section9
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To: Caligirl for Bush
All of this seems like the kind of thing that gives permission to attack Jews both intellectually and physically. When public personalities go forward with this sort of thing, the attacks on average Jews in the street are not far behind.

It is with a heavy heart that I read this debate. It will be innocent Jews who always pay the price.

65 posted on 10/07/2002 9:50:43 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Brush_Your_Teeth
This is the same as Henry Ford blaming the "international jews".

Ha, ha. Where else can you find a flag of Israel in the heart of "Mecca, USA"?


66 posted on 10/08/2002 4:38:45 AM PDT by Alouette
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To: Campion
Thanks that confirms the DNC's hatred of all things religious and moral.
67 posted on 10/08/2002 9:28:15 AM PDT by friendly
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To: HunterBonham
"...What did she say that was anti-semitic?..."

Read the article.

68 posted on 10/08/2002 4:19:50 PM PDT by DWSUWF
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To: NativeNewYorker
How do I join?
69 posted on 10/17/2002 2:06:09 PM PDT by rmlew
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To: 1bigdictator
Are you being sacrastic or not?
70 posted on 10/17/2002 2:07:16 PM PDT by rmlew
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To: rmlew
The "Pogrom" comment was a jab at Dowd... if you follow my posts you would know that... Israel forever... go see "A letter from America" that I posted today to see how I feel.
71 posted on 10/17/2002 2:17:02 PM PDT by 1bigdictator
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To: rmlew
If you mean the "running" vs. "ruining" comment it was meant toward TexasAggie... I could not tell if he was being sarcastic... I was being sarcastic.
72 posted on 10/17/2002 2:24:40 PM PDT by 1bigdictator
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To: DWSUWF
Scratch a Dowd and you find an anti-Semitic bitch.

Not much to scratch. A friend of mine in D.C. dated Ms. Dowd some years ago, and said she is a self-absorbed, unhappy person and lousy in bed.

73 posted on 10/17/2002 2:33:39 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813
"...Not much to scratch. A friend of mine in D.C. dated Ms. Dowd some years ago, and said she is a self-absorbed, unhappy person and lousy in bed..."

LOL!

Now there's a trail that MANY a moccasin has trod, I'll wager!

Seriously though...

I was young once. (lol). And there were times I settled for 'bitchy'... Never once was it worth the effort.

I long ago learned that, where the enjoyment of women (mine AND theirs) is concerned, 'plain but friendly' trumped 'beautiful but bitchy' every time.

75 posted on 10/17/2002 5:06:42 PM PDT by DWSUWF
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To: rmlew
If I knew...
76 posted on 10/17/2002 5:37:09 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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