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	Hope you all enjoyed issue #11. Now here's something to think 
        about.

        Some Call It Treason
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        By: Matthew Rothschild


        New Jersey State Senator James Cafiero upped the political rhetoric 
        to a whole new level when, on October 17, he introduced a resolution 
        urging Attorney General John Ashcroft to indict two Congresspeople 
        who went to Iraq on charges of treason.

        The traitors, according to Cafiero, are Representative Jim McDermott, 
        Democrat of Washington, and Representative David Bonior, Democrat of 
        Michigan.

        Cafiero, the Republican whip in the Jersey state house, stated in his 
        resolution: "The public comments critical of the policies and President 
        of the United States made by United States Representatives Jim McDermott 
        and David Bonior during a recent trip to Baghdad constitute an act of 
        treason against the United States. . . .

        [Their comments] gave aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States."

        McDermott and Bonior were in Iraq at the end of September and in early 
        October. They were seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict and 
        were pleading for the United States to agree to let the U.N. inspectors 
        return to work right away.

        On ABC's "This Week" program of September 29, McDermott said that Bush 
        was "trying to provoke a war." He also said that the Untied States should 
        "take the Iraqis at their face value," and--most controversially--"I think 
        the President would mislead the American people."

        McDermott and Bonior immediately came under fire. George Will called them 
        Saddam's "American collaborators" and "useful idiots." Senator John McCain 
        slammed them, and Representative Sam Johnson, Republican of Texas, said, 
        "You cannot cavort around with the enemy and be a good American."

        Upon returning to the United States, McDermott tried to do some damage 
        control. "I perhaps overstated my case," he said.

        But Cafiero was not content to leave the controversy alone. "These two 
        Congressmen should have known better than to use their position as elected 
        officials to fan the flames of an already volatile situation by questioning 
        the wisdom of U.S. foreign policy while standing on Iraqi soil."

        Spokespersons for both Representatives declined to comment on Cafiero's 
        legislation.

        But early on in the controversy, McDermott did tell Paula Zahn of CNN, 
        "Dissent is an American right, and without it, it's not a democracy."

                                       	

             
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