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Dear President Bush,
Your chief political strategist, Mr. Karl Rove, will lead you to failure. His advice to you regarding your campaign for re-election in 2004 is bad advice, insofar as it involves selling out Israel in the international arena for political gain in the domestic Muslim community.
Karl Rove apparently believes that it was American Muslims who were responsible for your election to the presidency, and his strategy for 2004 seems to be to keep that constituency happy. Thanks to Rove and advisors like him, Mr. President, you have hosted in the White House Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups such as Hamas and who have called for a Jihad against America. And make no mistake: the moral cost of heeding Rove's campaign advice will ultimately translate into a political cost as well.
Center for Security Policy head Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., in an article for JewishWorldReview.com today, writes that Rove has no problem with allowing access to the White House for groups supportive of Hamas and Islamic Jihad - even though some of them have publicly expressed support for those engaged in "armed struggle" against Israel and the U.S. "No evidence of undesirable influence," said Rove about these groups.
Quoting Middle East Newsline, Gaffney says that Rove has been granted major input in U.S. foreign policy as part of an effort to prepare your reelection campaign in 2004 - and that Road Map issues were submitted for Rove's consideration. But the votes Rove seeks to gain in the Muslim community will never be won by kowtowing to immoral demands, and the Jewish vote, which began swinging towards your party thanks to your moral leadership, will remain where it was prior to September 11.
Furthermore, a policy of pressuring Israel to acquiesce to the demands of the Arab-Muslim world and to "share the Holy Land," as you put it, will drive away one of your key constituencies - evangelical Christians. The Center for Security Policy has released a new national poll indicating that a strong majority of Americans (72.7% to 18.0%) support the precondition on dismantling terror you laid out last June - and that among Christian conservatives, the result is even more dramatic (78.6% to 13.6%). To paraphrase one well-known Christian leader regarding evangelical support for Republican leadership: We have more faith in G-o-d than in G.O.P.
Your Road Map plan essentially abandons Israel to the terrorist leaders of the PLO, in their new incarnation as the Palestinian Authority, and requires the eviction of half-a-million Jews (250,000 in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and 240,000 in greater Jerusalem) from their homes in Israel. This, of course, is contrary to straightforward morality, to your own declaration of war on terror, and to the Biblical injunctions that motivate many of your traditional supporters.
Allow us, Mr. President, to tell you a story. In an allegory recorded in our Talmud, a man marries two wives - one young and one old. The young wife wants a young-looking husband, and so she plucks the man's graying hairs from his head. His other wife wants to have a more distinguished-looking husband, and consequently plucks out all of his still-black hairs. The unfortunate fellow, of course, ends up totally bald, having lost his hairs from both directions.
That is the type of political situation into which Karl Rove is leading you, Mr. President. You will lose support in the Christian and Jewish communities, while all of your pandering to Muslim interest groups by sacrificing Israel will avail you nothing. And thus, like your father before you when he followed the directions laid out by James Baker, you will not return to the White House.
Gaffney again makes it quite clear: "Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, the effort to curry favor with Islamists may not only be bad for the national security. It may jeopardize his political base without producing offsetting gains among Muslim voters and/or donors? American Muslim Council communications director Faiz Rehman [says]: 'There's no chance Muslims are going to vote for Mr. Bush [in 2004]."
For your own sake, for the sake of morality, and for the sake of your declared war on terrorism's masterminds, dismiss Karl Rove. You have no shortage of men and women of character in your administration. Seek out Vice-President Dick Cheney; consult with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. And most importantly, hear your inner voice, without letting it be muffled by misguided political advisors like Karl Rove.
We don't want to see you go bald, Mr. President, come 2004.
[If you agree with the content of this missive, please let the US Administration know:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Fax: (202) 456-2461
email: president@whitehouse.gov
Also at the White House, Vice-President Richard Cheney
email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000]
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Dear President Bush,
Your chief political strategist, Mr. Karl Rove, will lead you to failure. His advice to you regarding your campaign for re-election in 2004 is bad advice, insofar as it involves selling out Israel in the international arena for political gain in the domestic Muslim community.
Karl Rove apparently believes that it was American Muslims who were responsible for your election to the presidency, and his strategy for 2004 seems to be to keep that constituency happy. Thanks to Rove and advisors like him, Mr. President, you have hosted in the White House Muslim leaders who support terrorist groups such as Hamas and who have called for a Jihad against America. And make no mistake: the moral cost of heeding Rove's campaign advice will ultimately translate into a political cost as well.
Center for Security Policy head Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., in an article for JewishWorldReview.com today, writes that Rove has no problem with allowing access to the White House for groups supportive of Hamas and Islamic Jihad - even though some of them have publicly expressed support for those engaged in "armed struggle" against Israel and the U.S. "No evidence of undesirable influence," said Rove about these groups.
Quoting Middle East Newsline, Gaffney says that Rove has been granted major input in U.S. foreign policy as part of an effort to prepare your reelection campaign in 2004 - and that Road Map issues were submitted for Rove's consideration. But the votes Rove seeks to gain in the Muslim community will never be won by kowtowing to immoral demands, and the Jewish vote, which began swinging towards your party thanks to your moral leadership, will remain where it was prior to September 11.
Furthermore, a policy of pressuring Israel to acquiesce to the demands of the Arab-Muslim world and to "share the Holy Land," as you put it, will drive away one of your key constituencies - evangelical Christians. The Center for Security Policy has released a new national poll indicating that a strong majority of Americans (72.7% to 18.0%) support the precondition on dismantling terror you laid out last June - and that among Christian conservatives, the result is even more dramatic (78.6% to 13.6%). To paraphrase one well-known Christian leader regarding evangelical support for Republican leadership: We have more faith in G-o-d than in G.O.P.
Your Road Map plan essentially abandons Israel to the terrorist leaders of the PLO, in their new incarnation as the Palestinian Authority, and requires the eviction of half-a-million Jews (250,000 in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and 240,000 in greater Jerusalem) from their homes in Israel. This, of course, is contrary to straightforward morality, to your own declaration of war on terror, and to the Biblical injunctions that motivate many of your traditional supporters.
Allow us, Mr. President, to tell you a story. In an allegory recorded in our Talmud, a man marries two wives - one young and one old. The young wife wants a young-looking husband, and so she plucks the man's graying hairs from his head. His other wife wants to have a more distinguished-looking husband, and consequently plucks out all of his still-black hairs. The unfortunate fellow, of course, ends up totally bald, having lost his hairs from both directions.
That is the type of political situation into which Karl Rove is leading you, Mr. President. You will lose support in the Christian and Jewish communities, while all of your pandering to Muslim interest groups by sacrificing Israel will avail you nothing. And thus, like your father before you when he followed the directions laid out by James Baker, you will not return to the White House.
Gaffney again makes it quite clear: "Unfortunately for Mr. Bush, the effort to curry favor with Islamists may not only be bad for the national security. It may jeopardize his political base without producing offsetting gains among Muslim voters and/or donors? American Muslim Council communications director Faiz Rehman [says]: 'There's no chance Muslims are going to vote for Mr. Bush [in 2004]."
For your own sake, for the sake of morality, and for the sake of your declared war on terrorism's masterminds, dismiss Karl Rove. You have no shortage of men and women of character in your administration. Seek out Vice-President Dick Cheney; consult with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. And most importantly, hear your inner voice, without letting it be muffled by misguided political advisors like Karl Rove.
We don't want to see you go bald, Mr. President, come 2004.
[If you agree with the content of this missive, please let the US Administration know:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Fax: (202) 456-2461
email: president@whitehouse.gov
Also at the White House, Vice-President Richard Cheney
email: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000]
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