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Someone commented on one of my posts yesterday sending this link from the NY Times about Arabs in the U.S. Raising Money to Back Bush.

Anyway, even though most of the examples the writer mentions are not actually arabs, it’s a real shame.
Obviously these people only care about their special interests, and they don’t give a damn about what happens to their brothers and sisters in the US or outside of it.

These people are rich and so they don’t feel the sting of Bush’s policies, in fact they use them to advance their own personal agendas and profit from other people’s suffering.

People like these make me sick and disgusted.
If they sent half the money they’re giving away to Bush to start wars, bomb countries and kill people in the name of spreading democracy and peace to their home countries, this world would truly become a better and more peaceful place.

Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair said this at a charity event for Medical Aid for Palestine, June 2002:

“As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.”

Liberal Democrat member of the British Parliament Janet Tonge said this on Sky News:

“I do not condone suicide bombers but I do understand why people out there become suicide bombers ? it is out of desperation. If I was in their situation…I might just think about it myself. They are in a terrible plight and the world is standing by and watching. Something needs to be done.”

Professor Leighton Armitage, adjunct political science professor at Foothill College in the US has dared to say this of the Israeli treatment of Palestinians:

“And what are they doing with Palestinians, every day? They’re killing them. They’re walling them in, they’re essentially doing the same thing that was done to them… It’s exactly what Hitler did to the Jews.”

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John F. Kerry is a practising catholic, but his grandfather Fritz Kohn was a Czech national of Jewish descent.
In the Students for Israel publication “Perspectives: An Israel Review” he wrote an article entitled “A Powerful Journey, an Essential Dream”, in which he said:

“In this difficult time we must again reaffirm we are enlisted for the duration – and reaffirm our belief that the cause of Israel must be the cause of America – and the cause of people of conscience everywhere.” — J.F.Kerry, in “Perspectives: An Israel Review”

Seems like whoever wins the next US elections won’t really change anything in how the US treats the Middle East problem.
Israel will always get it’s way, and the Palestinians will always be shot down.

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So Howard Dean is out of the US presidential race.
I heard it last night on CNN, and I can’t say I was shocked. After the wins John Kerry has been packing under his belt, I was expecting Dean to pull out.

It’s a shame, I think. Dean was the only person who was thinking the right way and who really wanted and could make a change.

Now, John Kerry and John Edwards are left in the race, and it’s almost obvious Kerry is going to get the nomination.

I haven’t posted my opinion about Kerry before, so here it is.
I think Kerry is just another special interests driven politician who won’t really bring much new or change.
Of course, lining up with the Anyone But Bush Americans, I think he should become President of the US.
But honestly, I think the US needs a President who can make a change for the American people and the world. Someone who is in touch with what the people need and what their priorities are. Someone who can keep the US the greatest power but also make it respected and loved.
I felt Howard Dean could make a step towards something like that.

Anyway, Good luck to whoever wins the nomination.