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From: MElsant@aol.com Date: Thu 27 Sep 2001 Subject: Support Israel and fight Islamic terrorism consistently! (VIPAC) Dear President Bush: I applaud your consistency in opposing Yasir Arafat's sponsorship of terrorism just as you oppose the Taliban's sponsorship of terrorism. This is a refreshing change from the days of the Clinton-Gore administration when Arafat was invited to the White House more times than any other foreign leader. Clinton and Gore applied only token pressure on him to fight terrorism and never once spoke out against terror by his own Palestinian Authority police. However your secretary of state Colin Powell has consistently criticized Israel's counter-terrorism measures as "excessive and disproportionate". He is partially correct: a proportionate Israeli response would be to blow up Palestinian pizzerias and nightclubs packed with Arab children. Powell is also being consistent. In 1990 when Saddam Hussein conquered Kuwait and threatened to push into Saudi Arabia Powell urged your father then-President Bush Sr. not to go to war against Iraq. Had your father listened to Powell Saddam Hussein would have captured Saudi Arabia and been in a position to blackmail our foreign policy by threatening to cut oil supplies. He would also have been able to destabilize Jordan such that Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel might never have been signed. Powell evidently believes that tyrants can be reasoned with if only we are nice enough. That was tried by Neville Chamberlain then Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1939. The results were disastrous. Please impress upon Colin Powell the need to uproot terrorists quickly and decisively before they have a chance to grow stronger and consolidate their power. Sincerely ______________________________________________________________________ The President's email: president@whitehouse.gov The Vice President's email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov Click "Govt. Email Addresses" at www.vipac.org for other officials. TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send an email to majordomo@vipac.org with "unsubscribe vipac-letters" in the body of the message. ______________________________________________________ |
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