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In article <1992Nov02.110518.523@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss) writes:

> I also would by no means regard George Bush as a friend of
> >the Jews.
> 
> Why? Is it because he destroyed the Iraqi army?

Well, to tell the truth, when I said that I did not regard Bush as a
friend of the Jews, I was thinking of two things in particular.  

The first was a comment not by Bush, but by Baker speaking to Bush:
"Fuck the Jews.  They don't vote for us anyway."  Bush didn't say
those words, but his closest advisor did, and he didn't repudiate
them.

The second, which is somewhat more general, is just the overall tone
of today's Republican party.  The Christian right-wing has achieved an
enormous influence over the party, and they have made it very clear
what kind of future they want for our country.  It is, in my opinion,
not a future in which non-Christians are welcome.  (Yes, they say
"Judeo-Christian" on occasion, but I don't think they mean the "Judeo"
part.  I think it's just window dressing.)  

I don't think that Bush himself is a fundamentalist Christian fanatic,
and I don't know whether or not he personally is anti-semitic.  I do
know, though, that Bush has not stood up to the religious bigots and
the anti-semites within his party, and often he hasn't even bothered
to distance himself from them.  Voting for him legitimized these
forces.
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