----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: New Pentagon Papers Author


> The Weekly Stanard does a few quick excerpts from the
> oeuvre of the author of the "New Pentagon Papers":
>
>
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/849czxps.asp
>
> So, Doug, I think you were the person who posted how
> important these were to the list.  How do you feel
> about endorsing this person's views?  My own personal
> favorite would be, from the article:
>
> "Kwiatkowski accused the Pentagon of planning to
> 'build greater Zion' in the Middle East and decried
> the 'Zionist political cult that has lassoed the
> E-Ring'...."



> This lunatic, by the way, has been favorably quoted by
> Ted Kennedy.
>
> What is it about opposing the war and being an
> anti-semite?  I mean, I understand why anti-semites
> opposed the war, that makes perfect sense to me.  But
> how did otherwise reasonable people decide that
> anti-semitism in other people who thought the war
> shouldn't happen was okay, as long as you agreed on that?

There is also the possibility that her anti-Semitic views written under
pseudonyms were not traced to her when her criticism was quoted.  It is
very reasonable, since she making those statements under a pseudonym, to
consider the rest of her report questionable at best.  I think Doug using
her as a source without realizing that she wrote anti-Semitic crap under a
pseudonym is perfectly excusable as an honest mistake.  Kennedy's staff
should be very embarrassed that they didn't vet her before quoting her.

Dan M.

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