Ros-Lehtinen Selected Republican Ranking Member of House Committee on International Relations

[Judi Lynn]

Ros-Lehtinen Selected Republican Ranking Member of House Committee on International Relations
18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, the House Republican Conference selected a new Ranking Member for the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations for the for 110th Congress, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (news, bio, voting record) of Florida.

When Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was elected to the House of Representatives in 1989, she became the first Hispanic woman and the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Congress. She is the current Chair of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, and previously served as Chair of the Africa, International Economic Policy and Trade Subcommittee and the International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20061207/pl_usnw/ros_lehtinen_selected_republican_ranking_member_of_house_committee_on_international_relations305_xml

[Dr.Phool]

1. Didn't she just call for Castro's assasination last week?

I don't have the link anymore.

Who's going to be her Chief of Staff, Pat Robertson?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Oh, that's RIGHT! I saw it, too. Maybe another DU'er will have it available.

Yes, Pat would probably be the right man for the job.



On edit:

I think I've got it:

Republican congresswoman calls for assassination of Castro

[Mika]

18. Here it is. Congresswoman encourages assassination

Congresswoman encourages assassination
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x7789

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[maddezmom]

7. is this it?

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/45107/

[Tom Joad]

13. Not only homocidal, but without sense. Why kill someone on their deathbed?

Just out of spite?
She should be hospitialized. Treated with compassion. And strong, effective, medication.

[ngant17]

10. well, the she-wolf certainly isn't the one to waffle on the issues

when it comes to approving for murders of Latin American political leaders, leftwing Latin American leaders, I should say, of which Fidel Castro has been on her enemies' list for as long as she has had her career as a loyal public servant to the mafia in S. Florida.

[bullimiami]

2. classic republican move. international relations.

what a hateful troll she is.

[rurallib]

4. From what I have seen in Maher she's a fruitcake

Is my opinion on target?

[Tom Joad]

5. She is very extreme. Hates Palestinian families. She has led the

way for calling for brutal sanctions on the Palestinian people, who are under military occupation. This has led to a grave humanitarian crisis for Palestinian families. The children go to bed hungry and malnourished because of the work of this woman.

[Tom Joad]

6. She is the darling of AIPAC and similar extremist groups. She supports terror.

Regardless of this reality, Congress trudges on with its campaign against Syria. The new raison d'être for attacking Syria came from Republican and Cuban-born Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who appears obsessed with supporting economic sanctions as a purported means of overturning authoritarian regimes and triggering democracy. Indeed, for decades she has advocated aggressive policies aimed at "Cuba's terrorist regime."

Ros-Lehtinen played a leading role in the passage of the 1992 Cuban Democracy Act, which tightened the existing US embargo and the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which further restricted business with Cuba and codified the embargo.

Less acknowledged is Ros-Lehtinen's Obsessive-Compulsive Syria Bashing Disorder (OCSBD), a common diagnosis on Capitol Hill that usually originates in the infectious Israeli lobby money trail. Together with her fellow OCSBDer, New York Democratic Representative Elliot Engel, these Members persist in sponsoring anti-Syria legislation and coincidentally benefit from Israeli largesse for so doing. Indeed, the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs listed Engel as one of the "Top Ten Career Recipients" of pro-Israel PAC funds in 2004. Between January 1, 1978-June 30, 2004, he received a cumulative $135,918. Ros-Lehtinen cashed in $40,000 from the same source for the 2003-2004 Election cycle. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) also did its part to convince an overwhelming majority of House and Senate Members to "sanction Syria for its continuing support of terrorism" (AIPAC "Working to Secure Israel" brief, September 5, 2002).

Following the Valentine's Day massacre of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, American, European and even Arab voices (including Saudi Arabia and Egypt) united around the call for President Bashar al-Assad to accelerate the pace of Syria's phased removal of troops from Lebanon in the face of swelling Lebanese opposition. When news of the assassination reached the United States, the ever opportunistic Ros-Lehtinen advocated strengthening sanctions against "terrorist" Damascus. Although the perpetrators of the horrific attack were-and still remain-unknown, the Congresswoman had no qualms about accusing Syria of international terrorism. Ironically, in 1989 her hysterical anti-terrorist pose softened when it came to her lobbying President George H. Bush to rescind the deportation order of convicted terrorist Orlando Bosch, a mastermind of the 1976 Cubana Airliner bombing (with fellow anti-Castro terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles) which killed 73 passengers and crew members-plus a bevy of other terrorist plots.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7802

Yeah, and we gotta stop aipac. www.stopAIPAC.org

[oberliner]

19. AIPAC is not an extremist group nt

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Like a dog with a bone....

[librechik]

8. she's kind of a nitwit too, judging from her appearances on Real Time

ooff--my headache is coming back.

She does claim to be bipartisan. So that's apos, I guess

[Judi Lynn]

9. She probably means "bi-polar."

A lovely photo of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the elder _Bush.

[donkeyotay]

11. The Repubs just raised the ante

I've been listening to the silence regarding the Israeli portion of the ISG, and wondering how the parties would outdo each other to keep from pissing off AIPAC. This definitely raises the bar.

[Tom Joad]

12. The Committee chair, Tom Lantos, is also a strong supporter of AIPAC militarism.

so the wingnuts for extremism get it both ways.
Lantos has been a strong supporter not only of Israeli colonial project in the Occupied Palestinian land, but also a war hawk in regard to Iraq and Iran.

I thought we voted for *change*???

www.stopAIPAC.org

[KoKo]

14. .They will make quite a pair....dreadful. Lantos is good on some things

but on an important committee like this (needing to repair Bush damage) I imagine we will see more "Good Will Missions" from the likes of Karen Hughes.

Not good.

[The Stranger]

15. Hardcore right-wing fascist.and a danger to democracy.

[donkeyotay]

16. IIRC, she updated the Iraq resolution to be the Iran resolution

So we could fund whoever the Iranian Chalabi is. The bill also pushes sanctions, which I haven't heard anything about lately. She wants war, lots of war, and makes no bones about her concern being Israel's welfare, as she see it. Sigh.

[grasswire]

17. oh, great -- a Bush family FIXER

She and her weirdo husband are so deeply involved with the nefarious deeds of the BFEE. Just great.