Dean Condemns 'Anti-Semitic Literature'

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In this curious, short, hit piece with no byline... the writer conflates the distribution of 'Anti-semitic' literature at the Democratic National Headquarters with John Conyers' DSM forum.

I guess 'by Karl Rove' would have been a bit heavy-handed.

You really are losing your touch, old boy. The forum wasn't even AT the Democratic National Headquarters.

Dean Condemns 'Anti-Semitic Literature'

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 (news, bio, voting record) 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."

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A quick question, did McGovern actually say, verbatim, that Israel wants to "dominate that part of the world". From what I remember, he did say that Israel was a definite factor in Neocon foreign policy in the M.E., but were those his exact words?

"It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel,"
-Colin Powell, April 28, 2004.

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p.s. There is a delineation between where Conyers' event took place, and where the Democratic National Headquarters is further on in the piece, but by the time Mr. Short Attention Span gets that far into the article, the association is made; "Downing Street Meme = ANTI-SEMITIC".

It's got "K.R. luvs G.W." carved into the trunk.

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1. that asshat Milbank played the anti-Semitism card,

a trick he learned while writing for New Republic, and now the rest of the press is following suit.