Talk:Ron Wyden

I am an Oregon resident and political activist, who helped run political campaigns for a small party in Oregon in '96, '98 and '00, who now finds myself in the position of urging all factions of Americans to temporarily unite through Nov. 2nd, 2004, behind the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, Kerry or whoever else this may be. And to do so even if Fox News reveals this person to actually be a dead skunk, as part of the last chance of free-thinking Americans to ressurect their former Republic.

Of course many of us may revert to opposing this person on Nov. 3, 2004 and after, and this is the second part, the future and on-going part, of ressurecting our former Republic.

The reason I am writing this in a link devoted to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), on Feb. 7, 2004, is what I have just read at http://www.SourceWatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Richard_N._Perle, that Sen. Wyden was a featured speaker at a conference on the Middle East organized by and featuring as fellow speakers, prominent neoconservatives. Sorry I can't be more specific, although I am a trained historian I need togo over my written sources many times in formal writing, and if I hit the back button I lose this writing.

I must ask, just how deep and just how far does Sen. Wyden's allegiance to the cause of Israel -- a subject well known in the Oregon activist community, see pback issues of the Oregon Peaceworker and the archives of the current "CNPJ" peace march coalition in Portland -- extend??

To extend myself on remarks heard on "Positively Revolting Radio" (KBOO 90.7 Portland) this morning, it should be remembered that Wyden was a key actor in the 1996 anti-terrorist bill, in which important civil liberties were eroded by systems of secret courts, at the behest of a Democratic Administration, over an incident in which our wonderful mass media openly speculated on terrorist causes in an aircraft accident later proved to be a case of internal malfunction.

And by extension, just how soft are Senate Democrats in general on Bush's War on Terror? They were part and parcel of the 1996 legislation, as well as the Anti-Iraqi resolutions at the end of the Cinton administration and the anti-Syrian resolution of 2003,not to mention the better known ProWar resolutions.

I am still fuming over hearing Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), like Wyden a member of the so-called Senate Intelligence Committee, on NPR "The World" Fri. Feb. 6, sounding as if he was part and parcel of the Republican press machine in blaming the CIA for the Iraqi mess, praising Bush's phoney new Commission, refusing to question the President's judgement, and refusing to say "Cheney" or "Office of Special Plans" or anything at all when directly asked if anyone should be blamed for the Iraqi missing-WMD fiasco!!? Is he is Democrat or what? Does Karl Rove have incriminating pictures of this Senator or what? When will these so-called Democrats stop supporting insane war plans dreamed up in Israel and crass attacks on the Constitution dreamed up in neoconservative dens, and defend our previous Constitution, and stop the gerrymandering of the House and the campaign-finance-corruption of both the House and the Senate?

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