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Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Sunday, February 29 2004, 2:35:38 (EST)
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Dear Kid,
I respectfully disagree. Rep. Eshoo took a couragous and sane stand and voted AGAINST the foolish Iraq war resolution that so many of our people stupidly supported.

It's so typical of our people to try to spread rumors and innuendo about our best and brightest.

You blame her for not mentioning her heritage. Is it always relevant? She was elected by Americans to an American post. In her official position, she is an American elected official. Don't you understand what goes along with that?

There used to be a city councilwoman in Southfield, MI who was of Chaldean descent. Whenever issues came to the city council that involved CIAAM (The Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan which owns the Southfield Manor), she would recuse herself because she is a member of CIAAM.

Obviously she wouldn't be doing the residents justice if she took every issue and brought up her ethnicity, or if she, having an ethnic background, used her position to benefit our people more than others... that's not what this country is about.

I don't know this for a fact, but I'm rather certain that she was at the unveiling of the Ashurbanipal monument. If that's not Assyrian, I don't know what is.

I won't be responding to your religious argument in the other post.

Below is a statement that I found on her web site:


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In October of 2002, the Congress debated the President's War Resolution. I voted against it (read my statement on the Floor of the House of Representatives) and instead, I voted for a Resolution offered by Representative John Spratt. It required the U.S. to work through the United Nations until all diplomatic avenues were exhausted. I also voted for Congressional Resolution 104, which expressed our support for the troops.

In May of 2003, I traveled to Kuwait and Iraq as a member of the House Intelligence Committee to examine first hand some of the challenges we now face. It was an honor to spend time with our troops who have performed magnificently under extremely trying conditions. They are clearly the best trained, best equipped, and best led fighting force in the world. But despite the President's statements that "major combat operations" have ended, Iraq is still a war zone, with our troops constantly coming under fire and, tragically, American lives are being lost an almost daily basis.

In deciding to invade Iraq, our nation made the most profound decision a nation can make. The President and his Administration repeatedly, and without any reservations, argued that we had to invade Iraq based on their stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, which were poised to be used against the United States. The failure to find these weapons represents an intelligence and policy failure of historic proportions.

To get to the root of this failure and to ensure that our nation has the best intelligence possible, I believe we need a strong, independent commission which has the authority to examine exactly how our intelligence was collected, how it was analyzed, what was given to the Administration and how the Administration used it. But for a commission to be credible to the American people and the global community, the President should not be hand-picking its members nor should he be setting boundaries on how it does its work.

Addressing out intelligence failures and supporting a free, democratic Iraq are critical issues that have both short and long-term implications for our country and the world. As a member of the Intelligence Committee, they are amongst the most important issues I deal with every day. I look forward to keeping you updated on our progress, and I welcome your thoughts and ideas about our country's role in Iraq and the global community.

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The Nineveh Kid wrote:
>Anna Eshoo has appeared on the Fox network several times to be interviewed on issues relating to Iraq. Never once did she mention her heritage or her people in Iraq. She doesn't respond to inquiries from Assyrians regarding the plight of Iraqi Assyrians either, at least that has been my experience, first hand.
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>TNK



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