Posted on 06/18/2005 6:13:59 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON -- A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration's Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday.
"We disavow the anti-Semitic literature, and the Democratic National Committee stands in absolute disagreement with and condemns the allegations," Dean said in a statement posted on the DNC Web site.
Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, organized the forum on Thursday at the Capitol to publicize and discuss the so-called Downing Street memo. That document suggests that the Bush administration believed that war with Iraq was inevitable and that the administration was determined to use intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The Sunday Times of London has reported that the prewar document, which recounts a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair's national security team, was leaked from inside the British government. The White House has rejected the memo's assertions.
Conyers' event occurred in a small Capitol meeting room, and an overflow crowd watched witnesses on television in a conference room at DNC headquarters. According to Dean, some material distributed within the DNC conference room implied that Israel was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
One witness, former intelligence analyst Ray McGovern, told Conyers and other House Democrats that the war was part of an effort to allow the United States and Israel to "dominate that part of the world," a statement Dean also condemned.
"As for any inferences that the United States went to war so Israel could 'dominate' the Middle East or that Israel was in any way behind the horrific September 11th attacks on America, let me say unequivocally that such statements are nothing but vile, anti-Semitic rhetoric," Dean said.
"The inferences are destructive and counterproductive, and have taken away from the true purpose of the Judiciary Committee members' meeting," he said. "The entire Democratic Party remains committed to fighting against such bigotry."
I think I read that Conyers actually belongs to a Socialist Group....
He is out of control.
Except ours.
Onward!
Conyers is as bad if not worse than former Congressman RED Ron Dellums of CA
What's his story?
Doesn't iot make you feel safe to know that people like this McGovern guy is actually working at the CIA, feeding info to the Pres. I wonder how many more anti-semites are roaming the halls of the CIA?
Conyers graduated from his legal traininng from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Wanye State profs the last time I checked stood at 80% or better card carrying members of the CPUSA.
Conyers is a Socialist go here to see who else is http://www.restoringamerica.org/documents/socialists_in_congress.html
see reply #7
Remember it was the CIA that was feeding President Bush the pre-war intelligence.....and now HE is taking the heat, not the CIA
Instead, a lot of them have been leaking things and doing what this idiot is doing, in order to smear President Bush...
THAT is what Porter Goss is supposed to be there to do--get rid of the bad ones...
Jews who can stay democrat today should no longer evade the fact that many democrats (i.e. CBC) consider Israel/Jews as the enemy, part of the capitalist conspiracy to keep the third world down.
We to bring back the HUAC.
Absolutely!!!!!
i stopped trusting the cia upon reading about their 'experiments' with lsd in the 50s-60s. that kind of activity should be the point of no return for any government agency, but for some reason they were let off with a "we promise, we'll never do that again." no chance that drug has ever left the culture of the agency, but i'm getting off topic...my point is, nothing that agency does surprises me anymore.
Speeding their own sojourn once again to the "relocation camps" by continuing to vote DNC.
Well, Deans wife is jewish (but converted religions) and his in laws are jewish.
That said, he went through great pains not to mention his wifes background during the primaries, and only when he was really desperate, did he let her go on camera.
She also stopped using her maiden name at this point and started using his last name finally.
Don't forget Sen Turbin he's drawing fire too. Deservedly!
Howard Dean only reacted this way because he does not want the Jewish liberals in east Manhatten putting their checkbooks away.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
it seems like the only time you can get a politician to 'strongly condemn' something, financial support is at stake.
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