From: Eric Arnow <ericarnow@earthlink.net>
Date: July 9, 2003
Subject: Re "Thanks, Karl!"

Tell the good cop DLC'ers to go to hell. Dean supports war against Iran and perpetual war agaisnt the Palestininians--he's a shill for AIPAC.

From: Tamara Baker
Date: July 11, 2003
Subject: Re Re "Thanks, Karl!"

Must be a Kucinichite!

Now, Dennis Kucinich is a good guy, and he's a wonderful Congressman with a lot of decent people backing his campaign, but some of his most vocal supporters are just flipping off the rails much of the time.

The "Dean (and everyone but Kucinich) is a spineless tool of AIPAC" is the biggest (and most racist) card in the all-too-often anti-Semitic playbook used by Kucinich's more off-the-wall fans.

It's kinda like the modern version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: which, by the way, is still widely propagated as truth by some of the same Middle Eastern pundits who think that AIPAC controls the entire US Congress as well as the White House.

Yeah, Dean's dealt with AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and he has AIPAC members who support him, just like virtually every other US elected official of prominence. But Dean isn't afraid to tell AIPAC when he disagrees with them on deal-breaking issues like invading Iraq, even if it means that he has to brave a harsh reception from them:

The liberal Dean, who was ferried about the Aipac parley
by a high-profile supporter, former Aipac president
Steven Grossman, drew a good crowd there, even if his
anti-war stance was generally unpopular with the hawkish
group. He defended it forcefully, telling the Forward
that "Iran is more dangerous to Israel than Iraq is...
I don't think you have to be pro-war or pro-unilateral
intervention to be pro-Israel."

Not exactly the behavior of an AIPAC tool, eh? And the AIPACers in attendance gave Dean a coolish reception, nowhere near the love-bombing they reserved for Joe Lieberman. (That's OK: Dean, whose favorite novel is Ken Kesey's *Sometimes a Great Notion*, has never been afraid to talk to people who disagree with him on fundamental issues. Preaching solely to the converted isn't his style.)

But when Dean talked to a more liberal group of Jewish leaders and activists, he was greeted far more warmly:

At the Reform gathering, however, Dean's trademark cheeky,
shoot-from-the-hip manner electrified the crowd, which
heartily applauded his platform to make health insurance a
right for all Americans. "We have had enough in this
country of blaming government for what goes wrong," he
said. "Let's lift up government and not be afraid to be
Democrats!"

Leaving the gathering, Dean practically had to beat back a
number of young people who eagerly volunteered for his
campaign. "It would be an honor to work for you," gushed
one youth, a leader of the Reform movement's National
Federation of Temple Youth.

So there you have it: Another anti-Dean (and anti-Jewish) smear debunked.

From: Marc Perkel
Date: July 11, 2003
Re: Which is scarier?

I'm trying to decided which is scarier:

• The news that voting machines all over America are rigged to elect Republicans, news that is all over the Internet and the international press
• Or the fact that no one in the American press is even mentioning it.

Is it scarier that the Republicans control the voting machines -- or is it scarier that the Republicans control the press? There's no doubt in my mind that were Clinton still President, this story would be the only issue talked about.

Our freedom is gone. How long can America continue to live the lie?