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2004-05-13 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-05-13 7:15:46 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 so many strange issues - he carries Farsi language books, but wants to learn to speak Arabic? Either this was a strange confused guy with a lot of interests and travels, or there's a lot more to this story. Regardless, his Dad's an unmitigated asshole and a irredeemable idiot

/rant

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-13 7:28:12 PM|| 2004-05-13 7:28:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 [sarcasm on, setting high] Clearly, the hooded men in the video were Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Ashcroft. No other explanation makes any sense. [sarcasm off] How the Dad can place blame on Bush in light of the facts laid out here is beyond moonbattery (what comes after moonbat status?).

Posted by Sludj 2004-05-13 7:39:15 PM|| 2004-05-13 7:39:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What led him to Iraq? Well, from this account and the account of his father's idiotic behavior today, I'd say it was a little dose of youthful adventurousness and a WHOPPING huge dose of liberal cluelessness.

What the fuck do these people think, anyway? That the world would be just like it on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood if it weren't for those terrible Republicans? Did he think Iraq would be just like Sesame Street or Teletubbies?

Posted by Dave D. 2004-05-13 7:46:50 PM|| 2004-05-13 7:46:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I read elsewhere today that he had an Israeli stamp in his passport. Anyone who has traveled in the Middle East knows that that gets you nothing but trouble -- businessmen typically get a second passport for travel in the Arab world. And he visited Iran too? He was, at best, a foolish traveler. I'm not big into conspiracy theories, but I smell more to this story.

Posted by Tom 2004-05-13 9:21:52 PM|| 2004-05-13 9:21:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Somebody's out there planting stuff.
I can't believe that the reporters could turn up all of this in less than 24 hours "unassisted." It'd be interesting to know who "the source" quoted in the second bullet point is, and how much of this article is based on his information.

Posted by Old Grouch 2004-05-14 12:36:37 AM|| 2004-05-14 12:36:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm a Muslim and I feel very sorry over Berg's murder. 59% of all Clinton appointment were Jews (who comprise between 2.2% to 2.9% of the US population) to the highest posts of the federal bureaucracy, which has since 1999 blurred as to who is behind what. Berg incident took place at the height of Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Could it be that his killing was engineered to over-shadow the scandal? Now, I leave you with Clinton's 104 Jew appointments: Adler, Karen - Director State Department Policy
Adler, Karen - Liaison to Jewish Community
Albright, Madeleine - Secretary of State
Alexander, Jane - Director National Endowment of Arts
Apfel, Richard - Chief of Social Security
Barshefsky, Charlene - U.S. Trade Representative
Berger, Samuel - Head of National Security Council
Blinder, Allan - Vice Chairman of Federal Reserve
Blumenthal, Sidney - Special Advisor to First Lady
Boorstine, Robert - Communications Aide
Boskin, Stanley - Economic Policy Advisor
Boykin, Keith - Communication Aide
Brandenburg, Bert - Justice Department Spokesman
Breuer, Lanny P. - Special Counsel to the President
Breyer, Stephen - Supreme Court Justice
Bromwich, Mike - Inspector General FBI
Browner, Carol M. - Heads the Environmental Protection Agency
Cohen, David - CIA Director of Operations
Cohen, William - Secretary of Defense
Davidow, Jeffrey - Secretary of State for South America Affairs
Davis, Lenny - White House Special Counsel
Dellinger, Walter - Deputy Attorney General
Dimond, Paul - Head Economic Policy
Eisenstat, Stuart - Under Secretary of Treasury
Eisner, Hal - Director of Bureau of Intelligence
Eller, Jeffrey - Director of Media Affairs
Epstein, Thomas - National Health Care Advisor
Feder, Judith - Assistant Secretary of Health
Feinberg, Richard - Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Footlik, Jay - Special Liaison to Jewish Community
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - Supreme Court Justice
Glickman, Dan - Secretary of Agriculture
Gober, Hershel - Assistant Secretary for Veterans Affairs
Gober, Hershel - Deputy Head of Food & Drug Administration
Greenberg, Stanley - Presidential Pollster
Greenspan, Alan - Chairman, Federal Reserve Secretary of State
Greenwald, Mandy - Press Conference Advisor
Haas, Ellen - Assistant Secretary of Education
Hamburg, Margaret - Director of Press Conferences
Hoibrooke, Fred - Department of Small Business Administration
Holbrooke, Richard - U.N. Ambassador Nominee
Holbrooke, Richard - Special Representative to NATO
Indyk, Martin - Middle-East Peace Negotiator
Katzen, Sally - Secretary of Management and Budget
Kessler, Steve - Comm. Food & Drug Adm.
Kessler, David - Chief of Food & Drug Administration
Kessler, Steve - White House Counsel
Klain, Ron - Chief of Staff for Vice President, Al Gore
Klein, Joel - Assistant Attorney General
Klein, Ron - Assistant Secretary of Education
Koch, Kathleen - Heads FBI Equal Opportunity Office
Koplovitz, Kay - Advisor Small Business Administration
Koza, Michael - National Foreign U.S. Interests Head
Kristoff, Sandy - Health Care Chief
Lehman, Bruce - Head, U.S. Patent Office
Levitt, Arthur - Chair Securities & Exchange
Lew, Jack - Dep. Dir. Management & Budget
Lewis, Samuel - Director State Department Policy
Liberman, Evelyn - Head Voice of America Radio
Lipton, David - Under Secretary of the Treasury
Ludwig, Eugene - Director of the Mint
Magaziner, Ira - Head National Health Care Policy
Miller, Aaron - Deputy Middle-East Peace Negotiator
Nash, Robert - Presidential Personal Chief
Neuwirth, Stephan - Association Counsel to President
Penn, Mark - Asian Expert on Security Council
Penn, Mark - Presidential Pollster
Pltofsky, Robert - Chairman Federal Trade Comm.
Podesta, John - Chief Assistant to President
Pollack, Ron - Director, Families USA
Pollack, Ken - Iraq Office National Security Council
Rabbi Emanuel Rahm - Director Communications
Radd, Victoria - Deputy Assistant to President
Rahm, Emanuel - Presidential Policy Advisor
Riedel, Bruce - South Asia Office NEC
Rivlin, Alice - Director Management of Budget
Rominger, Richard - Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Ross, Dennis - Special Middle East Representative
Ross, Martin - Middle-East Peace Negotiator
Ross, Stanley - Member National Security Council
Roth, Stanley - Assistant Secretary of State
Rubin, James P. - Under Secretary of State
Scher, Peter - U.S. Trade Representative
Eli Segal - Deputy Chief of Staff
Shapiro, Howard - General Counsel (Lawyer) for the FBI
Shapiro, Ira - Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
Sherburne, Jane - White House Counsel
Sidney Blumenthal - Special Advisor to First Lady
Silverman, Stephan - Secretary of the Cabinet
Slotkin, Nora - Equal Opportunity Department CIA
Soils, Patricia - Director Scheduling to Hillary
Sosnik, Doug - Counsel to President
Sperling, Gene - Head National Economic Council
Steinberg, Jim - Deputy National Security Council
Stiglitz, Joseph - Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Summers, Lawrence (TLC, Bilderburger) - Secretary of the Treasury
Tarnoff, Peter - Deputy Secretary of State
Tenet, George - CIA Chief
Thomases, Susan - Chief Aid to First Lady
Waxman, Seth - Acting Solicitor General
Weidenfeller, Nancy - Office Quality Management
Weiner, Robert - Drug Policy Coordinator
Yellen, Jannet - Head Council of Economic Advisors
Yellen, Janet - On Board of Economic Council

Posted by Anonymous4869 2004-05-16 5:20:28 PM|| 2004-05-16 5:20:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7
I'm a Muslim and I feel very sorry over Berg's murder. 59% of all Clinton appointment were Jews

Very interesting. How long have you felt this way?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-16 5:32:33 PM|| 2004-05-16 5:32:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is America and we can appoint all the Jews we want to government!
(Our government is secular and doesn't look at a person's religion as a discriminating factor.)
That you Muslims have a problem with that is part of why we're fighting this war, Anon 4869.

Posted by Jen 2004-05-16 5:38:14 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-16 5:38:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What the hell? Not another Zionist(TM) conspiracy. My, my, you Arabs are very good at finding them; maybe they're just making it too easy for you. Or maybe they're just trying to distract you from their real goal . . .

Seriously, 4869, what do Clinton's appointments have to do with anything? Check the archives for some of the commentaries I've made on Arab conspiracy theories. The thing is, in the United States, we don't discriminate on the basis of religion. So you just may see Jews and Christians and Hindus and Buddhists and even Muslims in our government.

As for Berg, no decent human being deserves what happened to him (a lot of Muslims have shown themselves not to fall into that category, I fear, but never fear 4869, I am refering to the ones whose actions we see every day on the TV, not to the handful of decent Muslims - well, one family - that I actually know). Maybe a lot of the people on the Left certainly do, but we won't go into that. Fact is, wanderlust and being both optimistic and dense do not go hand-in-hand. He may have traveled, but he didn't learn.

We do need to learn about other cultures. That's the only way we can integrate a diversity that works for all. But they need to learn from us. If it isn't a two-way street, someone's going to vanish.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-16 5:42:48 PM|| 2004-05-16 5:42:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Berg's Business Partner in Iraq Was a Convicted Gangster

Posted by stickdog 2004-05-19 4:48:02 AM|| 2004-05-19 4:48:02 AM|| Front Page Top

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