US diplomats launch Bush attack

More miscellaneous info on AET

Washington Report on Mideast Affairs, put out by the American Educational Trust, a group of former foreign service officers known for vehement opposition to Israel.
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Rachel Corrie
University administrators, sensitive to the personal nature of the Corrie family's cause and protest, were considerate and receptive. The Brodersens were able to meet briefly with ISU president Gregory Geoffroy as he left the event honoring Caterpillar.
"President Goeffroy was very cordial. He accepted a letter from our family [and] a group of Rachel's e-mails sent from Rafa. We gave him those, and a book, Remember These Children, published by American Educational Trust, Americans for Middle East Understanding, Black Voices for Peace and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel. he said he would read them," said Bonnie Brodersen, Rachel Corrie's aunt, of Ashland, Oregon.
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Palestine Unabridged
Betsy Mayfield, executive director of Axiom Foundation and producer of "Palestine Unabridged," credited many people with the film festival's success. "Many individuals have made 'Palestine Unabridged' possible," she noted. "Some gave financial assistance through The Axiom Foundation, others helped us find and select the best films available, and a special few encouraged us with kind words and provided cookies to sustain us during long meetings. In addition," she said, "staff members of several organizations worked on book lists, and a group of Ames film aficionados are conducting a film viewing and award program for the Palestinian filmmakers who have shared their talents with us."
Mayfield cited the organizations providing assistance in the production of "Palestine Unabridged": American Educational Trust, Washington, DC; Borders Books, Ames and West Des Moines; Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2003; churches and community groups in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Ames and the surrounding area; Columbia University, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, New York, New York; Des Moines Area Community College; Grandview College Center for the Exploration and Practice of Nonviolence; Host Productions and North Park University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Partners for Peace, Washington, DC; Octagon Center for the Arts; Trans-Arab Research Institute, Inc., Dartmouth University; The Tribune, Ames; and Safford Productions, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Something I noticed during my Navy days was the enormous "cultural" difference between Department of Defense (DOD) and and Department of State (DOS).

DOD personnel believed in; absolutes, action, integrity, and solutions.

DOS personnel believed in; infinite moral gradations, dithering, and perpetuating the situation.

It was no accident that DOD personnel were overwhelmingly conservative/Republican while DOS personnel were overwhelmingly liberal/Democrat.

Every President and every citizen should observe very carefully what our "diplomats" are actually doing. What we see may be shocking.

Only 16 names here who are the other 34?

Perhaps they are still waiting for people to sign up...

This from wrmea.com (Washington Report)

The American Educational Trust, publishers of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, will host a press conference in the Lisagor Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St, NW, Washington, DC at 12:00 noon on Tuesday May 4, 2004, to announce and discuss the following letter to President Bush. If you are a former diplomat and would like to sign the letter, please call the Washington Report at 202-939-6050, extensions 104, 106, or 0, or email us at info@wrmea.com. If you are a non-diplomat, you may sign on in the supplementary list. Please include a title, and the place and position of your last post if you were an foreign service officer. Thank you.

For these maroons to compare any wall that might be built by Israel in an attempt to keep from being murdered, to the Berlin Wall, which was designed to keep people from fleeing into freedom, demonstrates just how far away they are from a view of reality that corresponds to the world.

What you say is certianly true, but, unbelievably, there is a large segment of the Left that believes the Soviet lie that in fact the Berlin wall was designed help stop an American invasion. I ran into one of these type a while back and of course any evidence I presented from any source was all capitalist propaganda.

The former US diplomats complained that President Bush's approach is losing the US "credibility, prestige and friends".

No........ Bush is just cancelling all the hot checks they wrote to "their" friends. Power is the singular constant in world politics. Reagan proved it with Russia and now Bush is proving it with all the other little Sino Soviet-ChiCom-Terrorist Dick-Tator whining SOB's and the Happy Hour Diplomatic Dipshits don't like it.

We'll they can kiss old brown spot right on his nose as far as I'm concerned.

Stay Safe Piasa !

Those aren't statements- those are names, for the most part, and I added many of them. That's what the keyword feature is for- so you can input words and names which will make the article turn up later when you look for a specific name or key word and save a lot of time.

Putting in only 'Iraq' is almost pointless since you will get so many returns- thousands- that you still won't know which article, or in this case an entire thread, to read for data you want. What if you are looking for references to diplomats? It won't turn up unless the word 'diplomats' is entered. What if you are looking for Fulbright? If it isn't in the thread's keywords, you will miss the info contained in the thread on Fulbright.

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