Posted on 01/26/2004 5:29:58 PM PST by chance33_98
Public Hearing -- The Middle East in Election 2004: Voting Out the Neocons
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Terry Walz of the Council for the National Interest, 202 863-2951
News Advisory:
REMINDER
When: Jan. 27, 10:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m.
Where: Room 2237 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
The winter storm that hit Washington Sunday evening will not disrupt the scheduled public hearing on the direction of US Middle East policy featuring two former Republican congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Ill.) and Paul "Pete" McCloskey (R-Calif.), Edward Peck, a former Chief of Mission in Baghdad, and Civic Leader Dr. E. Faye Williams. The hearing will take place in Room 2237 Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday, Jan. 27 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon.
The hearing, "The Middle East in Election 2004: Voting Out the Neocons," will be the first in series of hearings focusing presidential candidates' statements and positions while proposing a new policy approaches for peace in the Middle East in the interest of Americans.
Findley will state that the central issue of the 2004 election is the failure of the Bush administration to deal effectively and honestly with terrorism. "The real ground zero of the war on terrorism is in Palestine, not in Manhattan," he says. The task for American voters in this fall's national election is to reverse the direction of US Middle East policy and vote the Neocons and President Bush out of office.
Peck considers the war in Iraq a Pandora's box. He believes America has made critical mistakes, with potentially far-reaching implications for the entire world. Its effects will have especially negative implications for the US and Israel. McCloskey will plead for a change in America's foreign policy.
Congressmen Findley and McCloskey are making a rare appearance on the Hill at the invitation of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington think-tank they established fifteen years ago. This hearing will also propose a "4-Rs" national campaign that includes a plank for the immediate recognition of Palestine as an independent state, one sure way of redressing the current imbalance.
For further information and transcripts, contact Terry Walz, CNI, 202 863-2951.
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Council for the National Interest: 1250 4th Street SW, Ste WG- 1, Washington, DC 20024; Tel: 202 863-2951 Fax: 202 863-2952; E- mail: count@igc.org
*cough, hack* We've been in the Middle East for what, two years now??
They're all a bunch of Pallie sympathizers. Likely applaud suicide bombings.
To hell with 'em.
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