DeLay To Carry Dissenting Message on Mideast Tour

[kainah]

July 25, 2003
DeLay Is to Carry Dissenting Message on a Mideast Tour
By DAVID FIRESTONE


ASHINGTON, July 24 — Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, never tires of reminding people that he is just a former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Tex. But beginning this weekend, he will travel to the world's most complex and troubled region, meet with prime ministers, speak to a foreign parliament and, by his presence, remind the Bush administration to pay heed to its right flank as it seeks to make peace.

As he travels next week through Israel, Jordan and Iraq, he will take with him a message of grave doubt that the Middle East is ready for a Palestinian state, as called for in the current peace plan, known as the road map, backed by the administration and Europe.

"I'm sure there are some in the administration who are smarter than me, but I can't imagine in the very near future that a Palestinian state could ever happen," he said in an interview today, as he prepared to leave for a weeklong official tour.

"I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said. "You'd have to change almost an entire generation's culture."

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hopefully, this will fix the link, on edit:

NYTimes

[indictrichardperle]

1. way to put a foreign nation's interests

above America's, and world peace BUGMAN.

He sounds like he has his talking points and marching orders. Hes really an embarassment, really a dumb guy.

[asjr]

2. DeLay

Is there a pie in which he does not have a finger? What qualifies him to travel and stick his nose in the Middle East? Is he looking for foreign cockroaches to import? Tom is from another universe.

[ClintonTyree]

3. What a putz................

yeah, there's just not enough violence in the mid-east, we need this souless toady proclaiming that peace is impossible. I despise him more than I do Bush, and that my friends is no small fete.

[Wwagsthedog]

4. delay To Carry "Distorted" Message on Mideast Tour

this animal is a very evil creature. delay is a reactionary, creationist, zionist, slime who will stoop to anything to forward his own anti-American agenda. he shouldn't be allowed out of his cage let alone out of Washington.

[kainah]

5. but do you think he would be doing this

without a tacit approval from *? I don't. I think the bushies want to pretend to support a Palestinian state but that's not really their goal.

[Pale_Rider]

12. Fecking A Bubba ...

Rove stamped and approved this deal. Make Dubya look like a Green!

[Bake]

24. I doubt that, actually

Rove's not going to do anything (or let Smirk do anything) to piss off the wingnut base. He'll stay hard right until the campaign is in full swing (I know, you're saying it HAS been ever since 2000), when he'll just TALK moderate.

Delay is one of those wingnuts who actually think he has more power than the pResident (who takes his orders from CheneyRummyWolfie etc.). Remember that line in the restaurant about "I **am** the federal government!"

Bake

[Mel]

17. you are so correct

other than my thoughts of what a vile pox DeLay is I thought the same as you.

The *Bush WH doesn't want a Palestine State they are sending DeLay over there to stir up the pot and to try to keep the Religious Reich in their corner.

[goforit]

6. The WH staff too scared to go on own......"So send Mr. Big Mouth"

What a perfect dummy....in more ways than one!!!!

What happenned to our good old State Department?????

Is it non-existant???

[young_at_heart]

7. How does such a person get elected?

Surely the people in his district find him an embarrassment.....how could they not?

[mitchum]

8. Maybe there will be one more "casualty" in the Middle East next week

I would hesitate to call it a tragedy

[Jack Rabbit]

9. That is out and out racism

"I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said.

So, a Palestinian is a terrorist. Just by virtue of being Palestinian.

Of course, we should expect this kind of out and out racism from DeLay.

[JNelson6563]

20. This sort of thng is doled out

regularly even here. I've been called a terrorist loving whatever and I have said little on the matter but I've found fault with Sharon. DeLay has many in agreement with him, even here at DU.

Horrifying, no?

Julie

[The Stranger]

21. Horrify yes.

But call the racists out when they are racists. Soon the type of hate that Tom DeLay spews will be regarded as slogans like "Segregation Now . . . Segregation Forever!"

Don't let racists and bigots go unchallenged.

[DemoTex]

10. My advice to the Bugman in the "Mideast"

Check six!

[I AM SPARTACUS]

11. intentionally MIXED messages - supposed to inspire confidence...???

...they never hesitate to be positively surreal in their hypocritical idiocy...

[dfong63]

13. he already does

"I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said.

he already does support a terrorist state, to the tune of several billions of dollars a year. hint, its initials are ISR___.

[Gingersnap]

14. "I'm sure that there are some in the administration who are smarter than m

WTF? Oh, I get it, "little ole dumb me came up with this plan to protect the president from setting up a sovereign state of terrorists, KKKarl had nuthin to do with it."

:wtf:

[Julien Sorel]

15. DeLay is one of those bible thumpers who believes in

the whole thing about the Rapture coming once Israel is restored to its 'former' borders, or something along those lines. I read a speech of his once on the subject that was simply insane. He's using the terrorist issue as cover for his real aims. The Palestinians could be an entire nation of sheep, and he would still oppose them getting a state because of his nonsensical religious beliefs.

In using terrorism as an excuse, by the way, he is a lot like Israel, so he'll fit right in there. On the other hand, that Jordan, a majority Palestinian state, will be entertaining this crazed bigot points to what kind of regime the Hashemites have.

[Mel]

16. What a disgrace

DeLay is a damn dumbass and is the LAST person I want sent to the Mid East to speak for our country.
He represents the ugliest worst side of people in this country! Hey, Israel you can keep the sack of shit!

If I was in charge of who the Dems. decided to 'go after/spend money' to unseat he'd be top's on my list. I'd donate all I could to get rid of him, he's a pox on America.

[Corgigal]

18. flying

Is Delay flying commerical or private ? I have family flying next month.

[salin]

19. er... given the rage fanned by the on-going conflict

couldn't this be seen as working against US National Interest? Or seen as making us, in the US less safe? Granted the most fundamentalist supporters of DeLay - those who believe that this is the beginning of the "rapture" (and who don't see it as inconsistent that they would be greater than God in terms of trying to create the events to make it happen, rather than God working on God's terms - and given their literalist interpreations of the Bible and God -0 I find that very ironic) - to those supporters nothing could peel their support away from DeLay and the elements in the GOP (growing) that follow him.

But there are many still in that camp - who might find it frightening that one of the top elected republicans is actively working to keep the US citizens a target of international terrorism, and that he is working to foil the desires of the public to seek a peaceful resolution in the Mideast. It is one of the pieces of the puzzle, that if played loudly and often enough, will prick the conscience of those in their party who are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the extremism withint their own ranks - and are starting to face the realities of the likely consequences of having these particular "leaders" have so much power.

[htuttle]

22. He may be breaking a Federal Law

Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 45, Section 953 of the United States Code
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/18/parts/i/chapters/45/sections/section_953.html

Section 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

It might be a stupid law, but it's still the law right now.

[realFedUp]

23. The Exterminator, the Terminator...what next, the Hulk?

This House of Cards is falling into 2-D.