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"ComeInPeace" <Jimmy_Ray@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58007-2004Aug11.html
>
> Ralph Nader, that master of controversy, has a new bete noire: the
> Anti-Defamation League. The independent presidential candidate has become
> embroiled in an ugly exchange with the Jewish organization, after he
> suggested that President Bush and Congress were "puppets" of the Israeli
> government.
>
> "The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and
> meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol
Hill,
> where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced," Nader
> said earlier this summer. That prompted an angry letter from the league,
> which complained that the "image of the Jewish state as a 'puppeteer,'
> controlling the powerful US Congress feeds into many age-old stereotypes
> which have no place in legitimate public discourse."
>
> Nader is not backing down. In a letter to the group that will be released
> today, he reiterated his arguments, challenged the league to cite a recent
> example of when American leaders have pursued a policy opposed by the
> Israeli government and pointed to Israeli peace groups that he said share
> his criticism of that country's leadership. "There is far more freedom in
> the media, in town squares and among citizens, soldiers, elected
> representatives and academicians in Israel to debate and discuss the
> Israeli-Palestinian conflict than there is in the United States," Nader
wrote.

Thanks for proving that Nader is as full of shit as any other failed 60
year-old politician.

Lynn K. Circle
NRA, TRSA, American Legion
Happily Jewish