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NNA War News 12/17/98
US News
1. Way to Go Bill
2. Poll Shows US Voters Are On To Clinton
3. Lott Opposes Military Action Against Iraq Now
4. Impeachment debate delayed
World News
5. Russia to demand halt to attack on Iraq
6. Some Nations Angry Over Iraq Attack
7. Reaction to US Strike
8. Russia May Ask Lewinsky for Help
9. Ukraine Disagrees with Strikes on Iraq
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Way to Go Bill
You have to wonder whether Clinton's Jewish handlers truly understand
what kind of damage they have done to their creditablity. Jewish
manipulation has always been behind the scenes in America, as they
rightfully knew that once people caught on, there would be hell to
pay.
That was then and this is now. Clinton is virtually surrounded by
high profile Jews. With an entirely Jewish national security team
and with Clinton just finishing a trip to Israel, even sceptics
of Jewish manipulation are becoming believers.
There has never been a better time to convince Whites of the dangers
of Jews in our political system. Clinton has given us an excellent
opportunity. Let's make our voices heard.
Dr. Pierce, National Alliance Chairman, predicted this war would
happen. Listen to American Dissident Voices program from 11-21-98
called "Why War?"
http://www.natall.com/internet-radio/
Vincent Breeding
NNA Editor
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Poll Shows US Voters Are On To Clinton
NNA - A recent Excite poll shows voters strongly believe that Clinton
is using foreign policy to deflect attention from impeachment
hearings.
The poll, which was taken the day before the attack, shows 65% believe
that Clinton is trying to deflect attention from the impeachment
hearings with foreign policy, while 27% believe that Clinton is not
manipulating foreign policy matters for personal reasons.
http://nt.excite.com/poll/history.dcg?show=day&id=981215
Tuesday, December 15, 1998
Think Clinton is trying to deflect attention from the impeachment
hearings with foreign policy?
Yes - recent foreign policy and security decisions seem to coincide
with the White House crises
65% => 31399 votes
No - manipulating foreign policy matters for personal reasons would
undermine Clinton's authority
27% => 13153 votes
Unsure - seems like the issue is more about party lines than foreign
policy
8% => 3230 votes
Current Vote Tally: 47782
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Lott Opposes Military Action Against Iraq Now
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said
Wednesday he could not back U.S. air raids on Iraq "at this time".
"I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this
time," the Mississippi Republican said. Lott said he had been assured
by the administration there was no connection with the impeachment
proceedings against President Clinton in the House set for Thursday,
but added: "Both the timing and the policy are subject to question."
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Impeachment debate delayed
Pro-impeachment sentiment continues to build
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, December 16) -- In light of the U.S.
military strike against Iraq, House Republicans agreed Wednesday
to a short delay in the debate and vote on whether to impeach
President Bill Clinton, House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston said
following a closed-door Republican caucus.
Livingston warned that House members should not leave Washington,
but should remain available "to the call of the chair" to take up
the issue of impeachment. The speaker-elect indicated the debate
could be Friday or possibly Saturday, but said he does not anticipate
taking up the issue Thursday.
The Louisiana Republican also chastised the White House for its
lobbying effort to convince moderate Republicans to oppose
impeachment.
"We have left the issue of impeachment to the consciences of the
men and women in the Congress," Livingston said. "Unfortunately,
that's not been the case with respect to the White House and the
administration. They've weighed in, they've lobbied, but we've said
it's a matter of conscience."
Livingston expressed strong support for the U.S. troops involved in
the military action in the Middle East, and said the entire House
would be asked Thursday to pass a resolution of support for the men
and women serving in the Persian Gulf.
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt echoed Livingston's concern for
the troops. Following a Democratic caucus Wednesday the Missouri
Democrat said, "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying
that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take
up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."
Republican Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio said the impeachment matter
will not be delayed "indefinitely."
"I anticipate we'll take it up over the weekend or early next week,"
said Chabot. But no firm date has yet been set.
Some lawmakers questioned the timing of the U.S. military action
against Iraq.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey released a statement Wednesday
evening saying that people's suspicions that the attack on Iraq was
motivated by the president's desire to avoid or distract from the
impeachment debate are "themselves a powerful argument for
impeachment."
"After months of lies, the president has given millions of people
around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into
battle for the right reasons," Armey said. "The fact that Americans
are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his
ability to lead. If the president refuses to resign for the sake of
the nation, I believe he should be impeached and face Senate trial."
Livingston and Gephardt tentatively agreed earlier Wednesday to delay
the House debate on impeachment, with sources at the House Republican
caucus telling CNN the debate could begin either Saturday or Monday.
Livingston and Gephardt presented the plan to postpone the debate
and vote at their respective caucuses Wednesday evening. Republican
sources said Livingston met some resistance.
Supporting the speaker-elect was Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry
Hyde (R-Illinois), who told reporters it would be inappropriate to
lead a floor debate on impeachment at a time the president was
directing a U.S. military operation.
Clinton ordered the attack on Iraq's in retaliation for its refusal
to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Meanwhile, the White House continued its last-ditch efforts to stem
the momentum toward impeachment even as the pool of undecided House
members who can save Clinton from such a vote dwindled by the hour.
Clinton was scheduled to have a face-to-face meeting Wednesday
afternoon with Connecticut Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, who
is still considering which way he will vote. Aides said the president
would also meet with two New York Republicans, Rep. Amo Houghton,
who has said he will vote against impeachment, and Rep. Michael
Forbes, who has said he will vote for impeachment.
Even so, eight more Republicans announced their intention to vote
for one or more articles of impeachment, including New Jersey Rep.
Michael Pappas, who also called on Clinton to resign.
Among other Republicans announcing Wednesday that they would vote
for impeachment were Reps. Brian Bilbray of California, Jim Leach
of Iowa, Bill Redmond of New Mexico, John Porter of Illinois,
Sherwood Boehlert of New York and Bob Ney and Deborah Pryce, both
of Ohio.
"I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the
trust of the American people," said Ney.
But a firm vote tally will be nearly impossible to predict with
several members saying they will not make up their minds until after
the debate or until they finish reviewing the final Judiciary
Committee report released Tuesday night.
And Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Arkansas) predicted Wednesday that the outcome
of the vote becomes more uncertain if it is postponed for a long
time. "If we're putting this thing off for a long time, maybe we
could have more dialogue," said Dickey, who has decided how he will
vote but has not announced it.
Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida) told a breakfast meeting Wednesday he
"truly had not made a decision," though he is inclined to vote for
the article of impeachment charging Clinton with lying before
Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury on August 17.
Another undecided Republican, Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico,
said she remains undecided. Wilson does not believe censure is an
option the House should consider.
Number of undecided members shrinks
Administration sources estimate for the president to avoid
impeachment, they must convince another six to nine Republicans to
vote no. Eleven Republicans -- many of them moderates the White
House hoped to sway -- announced Tuesday they would vote for
impeachment, with most of them citing Clinton's alleged perjury
before a Washington grand jury as the accusation they found most
troubling.
Five Republicans have announced they would vote against impeachment.
Of those still believed to be undecided, the White House counts at
least three as likely to vote against impeachment. That leaves
Clinton struggling to find about eight more.
The House floor vote on the articles of impeachment, if it passes,
would authorize only the second Senate trial of a president in U.S.
history.
Meanwhile, the White House continues to press the issue of a
compromise agreement. Vice President Al Gore is taking the lead
in that.
"I believe on Capitol Hill there still time for Democrats and
Republicans to come together and embrace a bipartisan compromise
to seek a resolution that is both quick and fair, and try to turn
away from the bitter partisanship that we have seen so far. That is
what the American people want and that is what's in the best interest
of our country," Gore said.
Shays holds town meeting
A key GOP swing vote, Shays held a town meeting in his home district
of Norwalk, Connecticut, Tuesday night to gauge his constituents'
views on impeachment before his meeting with Clinton at the White
House Wednesday.
Shays said earlier he would vote against impeachment, but then began
to waver.
The packed auditorium in Norwalk appeared almost evenly divided for
and against impeachment, with Shays promising to listen to both
sides before deciding his vote, which he has called a "conscience
vote."
Shays may discuss a tough censure option with Clinton Wednesday.
CNN has learned if Shays can round up eight to 10 undeclared
Republicans, Democrats would join them in a bipartisan appeal to
the president to accept a tough censure deal.
Judiciary Committee releases its report
The House Judiciary Committee released its final report Tuesday
night, accusing Clinton of having "disgraced himself and the high
office he holds" and calling for his removal.
"He has disgraced himself and the high office he holds. His high
crimes and misdemeanors undermine our Constitution. They warrant
his impeachment, his removal from office, and his disqualification
from holding further office," the report reads.
The report outlines four articles of impeachment against Clinton,
detailing the alleged perjuries both in his January deposition in
the Paula Jones case and his grand jury testimony, the basis of the
first two articles of impeachment.
The report, several hundred pages in length, does not add any new
allegations but summarizes all of them in one presentation and
includes several dissenting views from Democratic members of the
committee.
"The fact that he provided to the grand jury a half-true, incomplete
and misleading statement as a true and complete characterization of
his relationship ... constitutes a premeditated effort to thwart the
investigation and to justify criminal wrongdoing."
Discussion of the article on abuse of power centers on the president's
responses to the 81 questions submitted to him by the committee last
month.
In their minority submission, Democrats said they do not believe
the charges, but even if true they do not "amount to the abuse of
official power which is an historically rooted prerequisite for
impeaching a president."
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World News
Russia to demand halt to attack on Iraq
MADRID, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said
on Thursday that his government would demand at the U.N. Security
Council an immediate halt to U.S. and British military action against
Iraq.
Ivanov told reporters his government had expressed its ``most serious
concern'' about the air strikes, and he warned the attacks would not
only worsen the Iraq crisis but would also have ``serious
international consequences.''
In a barely veiled swipe at the United States and Britain for acting
without formal U.N. approval, Ivanov said: ``Nobody has the right...to
claim to be the judge of the whole world.''
Russia, traditionally sympathetic to former Cold War ally Iraq, had
urged the United States not to go ahead with the attack, which was
launched following accusations that Baghdad was refusing to cooperate
with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Ivanov said Russia's U.N. envoy would make his government's opposition
clear at a Security Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday night, New
York time. ``We are going to demand the immediate cessation of
military action,'' he said.
Ivanov, who was cutting short his trip to Madrid to return to Moscow
on Thursday morning, also warned there would be serious repercussions
if any Russian citizens were harmed during the bombing raids on Iraq.
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Some Nations Angry Over Iraq Attack
By KRISTIN GAZLAY Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) - Staunch allies such as Germany and Canada offered quick
support for Wednesday's joint U.S.-British attack on Iraq, while China
angrily condemned the airstrikes and France said it deplored ``the
grave human consequences that they could have for the Iraqi
population.''
The French Foreign Ministry added, however, that it also ``regrets
that Iraqi leaders were unable to show proof of the spirit of complete
cooperation'' demanded by the Feb. 23 memorandum of understanding
signed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraq's Tariq Aziz.
China's U.N. Ambassador Qin Huasen was visibly angry when he emerged
from an emergency meeting of the Security Council after being informed
of the attack.
``There is absolutely no excuse or pretext to use force against
Iraq,'' he said.
Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Lindh, told the national Swedish news
agency TT that her country deplored the attack and that the Security
Council had been presented with a fait accompli.
``It would have been important if the Security Council had been able
to act unanimously,'' she said.
The German government noted, however, that the Iraqi leadership ``had
been warned'' the international community would have to act if it
failed to cooperate fully with U.N. weapons inspectors.
``The federal government regrets that, in the face of the attitude of
the Iraqi leadership, it had to come now to the use of military
measures,'' its statement said. ``It hopes that the military actions
can be ended as quickly as possible.''
Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said his government supported
the airstrikes, adding that Canada had not been asked to contribute
militarily.
``Saddam Hussein has brought this crisis on himself,'' Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien said.
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[Worldwide reaction to Clinton's latest diversion is not good --
``You can forget about START-2 ratification,'' says Russia. Notice
that the aim was not to kill Saddam but they just happen to have
bombed his daughters home.]
Reaction to US Strike
By Paul Smurthwaite
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Air raid sirens sent a shiver of
foreboding through Baghdad shortly after nightfall as the Iraqi
capital braced for the second wave of a punitive U.S.-British
campaign to smash the country's weapons of mass destruction.
The city had remained calm throughout the day on Thursday as citizens
mopped up damage caused by a blitz of more than 200 cruise missiles
in the early hours.
Defence Department officials in Washington said the first phase of
missile attacks were followed by bombing raids by attack planes.
They said it was too early to evaluate the damage caused by the
strikes, which could continue for several days.
British officials said the initial attack was aimed at destroying
Iraq's anti-aircraft systems in order to facilitate later bombing
runs.
The attacks sent Washington and Britain into a wall of critical flak
from friend and foe alike.
And in Washington U.S. Republicans accused President Bill Clinton of
ordering the strikes to divert attention from their impending
impeachment vote against him over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Clinton met White House National Security Adviser Sandy Berger for an
assessment of the strikes and was to receive a more detailed
assessment
from Defence Secretary William Cohen and Army Gen. Henry Shelton,
chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff.
China joined Russia in strongly condemning the attacks while France
distanced itself from the raids -- putting the United States and
Britain at odds with the other three permanent members of the
Security Council.
Senior Kremlin officials said the strikes had probably wrecked chances
of the Russian parliament agreeing to ratify the 1993 START-2 nuclear
arms reduction treaty with the United States.
``You can forget about START-2 ratification,'' said Sergei Prikhodko,
President Boris Yeltsin's deputy chief-of-staff.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had reminded
Washington, London and Baghdad of their obligations under humanitarian
law and called for Iraqi civilians to be spared in the conflict.
Angry Palestinians burned the U.S. flag and denounced Clinton just
days after waving the Stars and Stripes to greet him on a landmark
visit.
``Clinton, the dirty dog, wanted to cover up his filthy, sexual crimes
by hitting Iraq,'' one Palestinian man said at a refugee camp near
Bethlehem. Others shouted ``Clinton you coward, go look for women.''
The Vatican bluntly condemned the strikes against Iraq as aggression
and said it hoped that international order would be re-established
soon.
But the European Union presidency said Saddam bore full responsibility
for the attacks. Austrian Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schuessel said an
EU-U.S. summit scheduled to take place in Washington on Friday would
go ahead as planned.
British officials said the assault on Iraq, launched shortly before 2
a.m. Baghdad time, was not designed to kill or topple Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein but to ensure that he was no longer a threat to his
neighbours.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the first objective was ``to make
sure we do everything possible'' to hit Iraq's air defence systems.
He confirmed that the attacks, dubbed operation ``Desert Fox,'' would
continue and that British warplanes would be heavily involved.
Live television pictures from Baghdad showed volleys of anti-aircraft
fire blasting into the night sky over the city and sharp explosions
could be heard.
Hospital doctors in Baghdad said at least five people had been killed
and 30 wounded in the missile strikes but there were no official
casualty figures.
Baghdad radio reported that the home of one of Saddam's daughters,
Hala, was hit in the missile attacks but she was not there at the
time.
The attacks, which followed Wednesday's evacuation of U.N. weapons
inspectors from Baghdad after they accused Iraq of halting cooperation
with them, drew a defiant response from Saddam.
``Fight the enemies of God, the Arab nation and humanity,'' he
declared in a statement. ``God willing, you will be the victors.''
The House of Representatives leadership postponed the vote on whether
to impeach Clinton over perjury and other charges until ``possibly
Friday, possibly Saturday, but within the near future.''
Republicans refused to accept claims by Clinton and his supporters
that the Iraqi strikes were unconnected with the Lewinsky scandal.
``Never underestimate a desperate president,'' said New York
Republican
Representative Gerald Solomon, declaring that Clinton's goal in
authorising the strikes was ``getting impeachment off the front
page.''
But top administration officials vehemently denied the impeachment
proceedings played any role in determining the timing of the air
raids,
and Vice President Al Gore admonished lawmakers to rally behind the
president.
``We need national resolve and unity, not weakness and division, when
we're engaged in an action against someone like Saddam Hussein,''
Gore said.
British Defence Minister George Robertson told reporters in London it
was ``inconceivable'' that the raids were timed to help Clinton.
Polls showed most Americans supporting the air strikes and rejecting
speculation that they were intended to delay an impeachment vote. A
CNN poll of 543 Americans showed 74 percent supported the action,
with 13 percent opposed.
There was a muted reaction on European markets to the strikes. The
dollar drifted lower after an initial surge and oil showed a similar
reaction. Tokyo's Nikkei average finished with marginal gains.
An hour after the strikes were launched, Clinton said in a televised
address from the Oval Office: ``I have ordered a strong, sustained
series of air strikes against Iraq. Their mission is to attack Iraq's
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes and its military
capacity to threaten its neighbours..''
Clinton said he had acted now to avoid launching military action
during
the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, due to start this weekend.
U.S. officials said more than 200 aircraft and 20 warships, including
15 B-52 bombers, were deployed in the Gulf region carrying more than
400 cruise missiles and other bombs.
Israel, which endured Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the 1991 Gulf
War, said it was deploying U.S.-made Patriot missiles as a precaution.
In two raids on Iraq in September 1996 the United States fired 45
missiles as a warning to Baghdad to comply with Gulf War ceasefire
resolution.
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Russia May Ask Lewinsky for Help
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian legislators considered a motion today
appealing to Monica Lewinsky to help halt the American attack on
Iraq. ``The State Duma appeals to Ms. Lewinsky to undertake
corresponding measures to restrain the emotions of Bill Clinton,''
said the motion by nationalist lawmaker Alexander Filatov. However,
there was no separate vote on the Lewinsky amendment. The attack by
the United States and Britain on Iraq was condemned by almost all
major political groups in Russia.
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Ukraine Disagrees with Strikes on Iraq
KIEV, Dec. 17, 1998 -- (Reuters) Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said on
Thursday it could not agree with U.S. and British military strikes on
Iraq and expressed regret regarding civil casualties of the action.
"Ukraine, which has consistently pronounced for resolving any conflict
situations by peaceful political means, cannot agree with force
methods of tackling this issue," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement expressed "regret" about civil casualties of the night
attack and concerns about the security of international experts
working
in Iraq.
"Ukraine's Foreign Ministry...believes the international community,
first of all the U.N. Security Council, have to do whatever is
possible to avoid further escalation of tension around Iraq which may
lead to unpredictable consequences in the region and whole world," the
ministry said.
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