🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:30:50 GMT, David Hamburger
<davidhhh@bellatlantic.net> wrote:

>We have been down this road before. 
>
>U.S. troops sent to war half a world away. American foreign policy
>controlled by an arrogant elite, bent on projecting military power
>around the globe. A public misled into supporting an unconstitutional
>war founded on deceit and fabrications. 
>
>As the death toll mounts, we hear claims that the war is nearly won,
>that victory is just around the corner. But victory never arrives. 
>
>As the public loses confidence in the government, the government
>questions the patriotism of any who express doubt about the war. 
>
>When a presidential election arrives, both the Democrat and Republican
>nominees embrace the policy of continued war. 
>
>The military draft comes to dominate the lives of America's young, and
>vast numbers who believe the war to be a senseless blunder are faced
>with fighting a war they do not believe in, or facing exile or prison. 
>
>The year was 1968. Because voters had no choice that November, the
>Vietnam War continued for another six years. Hundreds of thousands of
>Americans like you died, were maimed, or suffered from diseases like
>malaria. A far greater number of Vietnamese died. 
>
>Today, the war is in the quicksands and alleys of Iraq. Once again,
>under the pressure of a determined resistance, we see an American war
>policy being slowly torn apart at the seams, while the candidates urge
>us to "stay the course" in this tragic misadventure. Today's
>Presidential candidates are not Nixon and Humphrey, they are now Bush
>and Kerry. 
>
>Once again, there is one overriding truth: If war is the only choice in
>this election, then war we will have. 
>
>Today enlistments in the Reserves and National Guard are declining. The
>Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members to fill local draft boards,
>as the machinery for drafting a new generation of young Americans is
>being quietly put into place. 
>
>Young Americans need to know that a train is coming, and it could run
>over their generation in the same way that the Vietnam War devastated
>the lives of those who came of age in the sixties. 
>
>I am running for President, and have been against this war from the
>beginning. We must not waste lives in order to control and waste more
>oil. Stand with us and we may yet salvage your future and Americas'
>future from this looming disaster. 
>
>Sincerely,
>Ralph Nader
>
>HTTP://WWW.VOTENADER.ORG



But what is this stuff at the end?  

The above is from the Nader web page. It doesn't seem consistent with
the following last five paragraphs -- which is found on the following
neo-conservative Republican website:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6722

hmmmm

>--
>Taqi Usmani
>works for the SAMAD Group. Taqi Usmani is a suspected major player in the
>Muslim Brotherhood International money laundering network of Dallah
>Al-Baraka, Al-Taqwa, Al-Rahji Investment and Development Corp. Taqi Usmani
>operates the Al-Balagh.net, which has a online bookstore in California
>selling books written by individuals who are on the U.S. and UN terrorist
>lists.
>
>Jabara is a member of the legal advisory board for the Council for
>Palestinian Restitution and Repatriation (CPRR) as well. The non-profit CPRR
>exists to "provide legal assistance to Palestinian refugees and their heirs
>and to educate the public about the legitimate rights of Palestinians."
>
>Two members of the CPRR, Ishaq Farhan and Abdulateef Arabiyat, are members
>of the Islamic Action Front (IAF)-an Islamist party affiliated with the
>Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
>
>Abdeen Jabara also works closely with another IFCO project called the
>Coalition Against the "Counter Terror" Act. He distributes its flyers and
>has appeared in a video for the group, which may be purchased for $15 a
>copy - from IFCO.
>
>Apparently someone is buying. According to a New York Post report, "the most
>recent IRS records available for IFCO, from the year 2000, show that the
>foundation took in $1,119,564 in contributions. A Not In Our Name statement
>report that they have taken in more than $400,000 in recent months for the
>purpose of publishing their statement."
>
>NION and Narco-terrorism
>
>As disturbing as NION's relationships with IFCO and Musl
>