Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 22:16:48 -0400
From: carol@carolmoore.net (Carol Moore)
Subject: [libs4peace] LP Arab Bashing in "noninterventionist" guise
Cc: info@eliasisrael.org


    Once again the maniac locked in an LPHQ closet has issued another
ranting press release about Arab suicide bombers that, in the last two
paragraphs, mentions something about ending the war on terrorism.

   Not that any sensible press person will read down that far.  After
all, any press release that looks like it's trying to out do the
raving FOX NEWS war mongers can't be taken very seriously.  This
amateurish and counter-productive rant reminds me why I am running for
secretary of the LNC.  To replace whoever thinks this is effective
promotion of libertarian principles with someone PROFESSIONAL!!

http://www.carolmoore.net/4secretary  (Have YOU thought about running
for LNC??  There are TOO MANY hawk candidates who support this sort of
nonsense. They MUST be defeated.  And sign the libertarians for peace
peition -- it's over 300 now!
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/libs4p77/petition.html )


http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=578

Libertarian Party Press Releases  May 1, 2002
 Did Bush harbor a terrorist by
 hosting Saudi prince,
 Libertarians ask

 WASHINGTON, DC -- Did President Bush
 "harbor a terrorist" last week by hosting Saudi
 Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, whose
 government has allegedly made cash payments
 to the families of terrorist suicide bombers?

 That's the question Libertarians are asking in
 the wake of a Fox News report that the Saudi
 Interior Ministry made secret payments of
 $5,340 each to the families of suicide bombers
 and Palestinian commandos who had been
 killed in recent attacks against Israeli targets.

 "President Bush has said that regimes that
 support terrorism are no better than the
 terrorists themselves," said LP Executive
 Director Steve Dasbach. "But if the Fox News
 story is true, isn't Saudi Arabia a regime that
 supports terrorism? And by entertaining the
 Saudi prince at his ranch in Crawford, Texas,
 wasn't Bush giving aid and comfort to that
 terrorist regime?"

 According to the April 26 report, documents
 discovered by Israeli intelligence officers in a
 raid on the West Bank contain a list of
 high-profile Palestinian suicide bombers whose
 families have each been paid $5,340 by the
 Saudis. A Saudi spokesman declined to
 comment on the documents, and Bush
 administration officials did not dispute the
 report.

 But that isn't the only allegation that the Saudis
 have been supporting terror networks, Dasbach
 noted. On April 13, the Saudia ambassador to
 London, Ghazi Al-Qusaibi, published a poem in
 Al-Hayat criticizing America and praising
 suicide bombers. In the piece, al-Qusaibi writes,
 "May Allah witness that you are martyrs."

 And last week Secretary of State Colin Powell
 told a Senate panel that some of the $109
 million collected in a Saudi telethon may have
 gone to the militant Hamas organization.

 "Americans have a right to know if the War on
 Terrorism, which is intended to save innocent
 lives, is also being driven by politics," Dasbach
 said. "After all, Bush's public pledges to bring
 terrorists to justice contain no exception for the
 Saudis or any other U.S. allies.

 "Perhaps the president feels he must
 countenance Saudi support for terrorism
 because of its vast petroleum reserves, or
 because he is building a coalition for an attack
 on Iraq.

 "Yet none of that matters to the victims of
 terrorism. The innocents slain in a bloody
 terrorist bombing in the Middle East are just as
 dead as the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on
 the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bush
 mocks the sacrifice of both by selectively
 condemning the perpetrators.

 "It appears that Bush has created two sets of
 rules in his Global War on Terrorism: One for
 'axis of evil' states like Iraq, Iran, and North
 Korea -- and one for U.S. allies like Saudi
 Arabia."

 That's why Americans shouldn't be surprised
 that the War on Terrorism has turned into
 another typical government program, in which
 politicians decide at whim who gets rewarded
 and who gets punished, Libertarians say.

 "Rather than further politicizing the Global War
 on Terrorism, Bush should end it," Dasbach
 said. "The president has no business waging an
 endless, undeclared war around the globe.

 "If he can produce specific, credible evidence
 directly linking other nations to an attack on the
 United States, he should seek a congressional
 declaration of war. Otherwise, he should refrain
 from putting politics ahead of the legitimate fight
 against terrorism."


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