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From: MElsant@aol.com Date: Sat 6 Oct 2001 Subject: Support Israel! Destroy don't excuse Islamic terrorism! (VIPAC) Dear Mr. President: Your administration compiled a list of 27 terrorist entities in order to freeze their assets here and abroad. Conspicuous by their absence from this list are three terrorist entities: Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and Hamas. The Israeli government and respected Americans have protested your exemption of these terrorist groups from your recent list. I wish to add my protest to theirs. I think it is poor policy to exempt these groups from your latest list of terrorists. When I called the White House to register my protest by phone the woman who wrote down my comments responded that your administration had to exempt Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and Hamas from this terrorist list in order to build a coalition. Such thinking reflects a fundamental error. The coalition you are building must have the destruction of terrorism as its purpose otherwise you are just wasting time. And if the purpose of the coalition is to destroy terrorism you cannot build it by embracing terrorists and their supporters. Otherwise you might as well invite the Taliban and Bin Laden to join the coalition and declare victory without firing a shot. Your administration has tried to hide this policy behind a curtain of multiple lists arguing that Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and Hamas are on other terrorist organization lists. Secretary Rumsfeld among others has made this argument publicly but it is not valid. Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda are on those other lists as well but you recognized that was not sufficient. You correctly insisted that Bin Laden and al Qaeda be placed them on this additional list of 27 terrorist groups because this particular list has more sanctions and more global reach than the other lists. All lists are not created equal and your administration as the creator of those lists has to be aware of that. To shamelessly pretend otherwise is disgraceful. You can only defeat terrorism by confronting it and fighting it not by excusing it. If you add Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and Hamas to your recent presidential list with its meaningful international sanctions you will be confronting terrorism and be on the road to victory for America and the world. If you do not if you dare not call them by the evil that they truly represent and treat them accordingly then you will have chosen the road of appeasement which leads neither to victory nor honor. Please for the sake of all Americans and all freedom-loving people everywhere follow the wise advice of those in your administration who are urging you to put Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and Hamas on your recent and most potent list of terror groups. Sincerely ==^=================================================== The President's email: president@whitehouse.gov The Vice President's email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov White House phone: 202-456-1414 Fax: 202-456-2461 Click on "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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