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your mind back to the Revolutionary
War, during which New York City was
occupied by enemy forces for seven
years; or the Civil War, in which
Confederate armies won victory after
victory on the battlefield; or even
World War II, in which the Nazi
menace was defeated at an enormous
cost in human lives.
Should we have gone to war with
Iraq? I believe the answer is yes.
During a daily briefing after Sept. 11,
then-CIA Director George Tenet told
the president that Iraq had the ability
to wage chemical and biological war
on the United States. He called the
case for Iraq's possession of weapons
of mass destruction a "slam dunk."
Had the president not launched a
pre-emptive war against Saddam, and
if this madman subsequently had
released biological agents in the
United States or used poison gas as he
did against the Kurds and Iran, does
anyone doubt Bush would have been
impeached? The security agencies of
nearly every democratic nation pro-
vided their president or prime minis-
ter the same description of Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction capabili-
ty. The U.S. Congress had the same
information and concurred with the
president's decision, and the U.N.
Security Council unanimously con-
curred, passing Resolution 1441.
But it was Bush who had the
courage to take up arms in defense of
the United States and our allies'. That's
what leadership is all about.
Israel's Friend
A poll released recently by the
Washington Post showed that 55 per-
cent of Americans "approve of the way
Bush is handling the campaign against
terrorism,". and 51 percent said they
"trust Bush more than Kerry to deal
with terrorism, while 42 percent pre-
fer the Democrat."
We also should not forget that
Bush, in my opinion, has been the
greatest friend Israel has ever had in
the White House. At the U.N.'s
Security Council and General
Assembly, allies of the United States
and others who are indifferent or hos-
tile to our country have conveyed the
view that if we end our alliance with
Israel, the only democracy in the
Middle East, they would welcome the
United States back into their circle.
But Bush has refused to abandon
Israel.
This November, we American Jews
should remember our friends. We
should thank Bush for his courage in
the war against terrorism and for his
strong and consistent support for
Israel and democracy.
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Naif explained, "I don't see any con-
tradiction in the two statements
because Al Qaida is backed by Israel
and Zionism."
The Saudi government, one of the
Bush administration's closest allies in
the Middle East, regularly blames
Israel and Zionism for all the world's
evils, including terrorism. The same
Prince Naif also has declared that he
believes Zionists to be behind the
Sept. 11 attacks, and the Saudi press
prints the most vicious anti-Semitic
diatribes as a matter of course.
One looks in vain for a public
condemnation of Abdullah's offen-
sive remarks by President Bush or
his senior officials, a reticence that
may well be the result of the Bush
family's long and intimate relation-
ship with the Saudi royal family. To
be sure, the U.S. ambassador to
Saudi Arabia politely discussed the
Crown Prince's comments with the
Saudi foreign minister, but that was
about it.
In contrast, Kerry unequivocally
denounced Abdullah's "outrageous
anti-Semitic comments" and correct-
ly pointed out that they raise "seri-
ous questions about the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia's commitment to com-
bating terrorism."
Kerry understands that Israel is
more than just another country.
"I think it is fair to say," he said in
his 1997 AIPAC speech, "that the
ashes of the Holocaust victims were
scattered on the wind, but that wind
also carries on it their prayers and
purpose — above mountains and
sea, across thousands of miles, so
that the pain of history is redeemed
in the land of Israel. It is a sacred
place — for them, for their people
who live there and for all the world."
Both the United States and Israel
need an American president of
vision, moral courage and intellectu-
al depth who thoroughly under-
stands the imperatives of history.
Kerry is that man, and for the sake
of both nations, we must elect him
in November. ❑