Powell rejects notion that U.S. policy driven by Jewish interests

WASHINGTON (AP) --Secretary of State Colin Powell flatly rejected on Thursday any suggestion that the Bush administration's confrontation with Iraq was engineered by Israel or American Jews.

Powell told a House Appropriations Subcommittee that the drive to compel Iraq to disarm stretches back over two administrations and 12 years of United Nations resolutions.

"It is driven by our own national interest," Powell said under questioning by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Arizona, who said he wanted to clear up media suggestions that American supporters of Israel -- and Israel itself -- were driving U.S. strategy.

Powell told the subcommittee the U.S policy "is not driven by any small cabal that is buried away somewhere," nor by a small group of individuals.

Among the U.S. goals are helping the U.N. to "do its job" and concern for the Iraqi people, Powell said.

Powell's comments came a day after Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virginia, apologized again for making comments asserting that influential leaders of the Jewish community were pushing the country toward war with Iraq.

Some Jewish leaders, including six Jewish members of Congress, have called on Moran to resign, but Moran says he has no intention of doing so.



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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/13/powell.israel.ap

Hidden Agenda?

Washington Post March 13, 2003

extracts of article:

"MSNBC talk-show host Chris Matthews said war supporters in the Bush Pentagon were

'in bed' with Israeli hawks eager to take out Saddam



"Lawrence Kaplan of the New Republic charges that our little magazine 'has been

transformed into a forum for those who contend that President Bush has become a client

of . . . Ariel Sharon and the "neoconservative war party."' . . .

"The neoconservatives are trying to fend off critics by assassinating their character and

impugning their motives. Indeed, it is the charge of 'anti-Semitism' itself that is toxic. . . .

Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because

their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel

Sharon."

Then Buchanan throws down the gauntlet:

"We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in

a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with

Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords."









http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19674-2003Mar13

I bet Colon Powell didn't worry about helping the UN "do it's job" when they passed resolutions equating zionism with racism a few years ago. What can you expect from a yiddish-speaking babboon? Time to drop "the mother of all bombs" on Tel Aviv...