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28.04.06, 17:04
Pro-lsrael McCarthyism w akcji ,...
uklony
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Americans who didn't personally watch Admiral Bobby Ray Inman's televised
press conference on Jan. 18, 1994 would never have been able to figure out
the role of Israel's self-appointed American guardians in the admiral's
decision to withdraw his nomination as President Bill Clinton's secretary of
defense. Based upon, a column written by one of those guardians, New York
Times syndicated columnist William Safire, Inman, the Carter-era director of
the super-secret National Security Agency, who later retired as deputy
director of the Central Intelligence Agency after policy differences with
Reagan-era CIA Director William Casey, concluded that Israel's pit bulls in
the mainstream media would give him no peace either before or after his
confirmation. However, those who didn't see or hear the press conference
live, or learn about it from someone who did, wouldn't have a clue.
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It's the same mistake George Bush made on Sept. 12, 1991, when he went right
around the media curtain of silence and said directly to the American public
in a televised press conference that "there are a thousand lobbyists up on
the Hill today lobbying Congress for loan guarantees for Israel and I'm one
lonely little guy down here asking Congress to delay its consideration of
loan guarantees for Israel for 120 days." A poll afterward found 86 percent
of the American people supported him.
George Bush never renewed his public challenge to the Israel lobby, and the
public soon forgot about it. But apologists for Israel didn't. From that
moment, if not before, there was a media crusade to discredit Bush, his
administration, and even the reviving U.S. economy in a single-minded and
unrelenting campaign to defeat him in the 1992 election. Bill Safire led the
pack, writing in his column that although he had served in the White House as
a Republican speech writer, and that George Bush was a long-time personal
friend, he was voting for Bill Clinton.
www.washington-report.org/backissues/0294/9402028.htm
