"What should I make of this, as a Jew?"

N. B. - The article below is written by a Jewish person. To read the whole thing, please click on this link http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/29/211738/415/
Bush's Jewish Iraq Connection and Anti-Semitism on the Left
by Mr Futomaki
The following current and former Bush Administration members are all Jewish:

MICHAEL CHERTOFF is Secretary of Homeland Security. He is the son of a rabbi, and, in addition to being an American citizen, is also a citizen of Israel under Israeli law, as his mother is an Israeli citizen. He coordinated the federal government's "response" to Hurricane Katrina, and designated Michael D. Brown, head of FEMA, as the primary federal official to lead the deployment and coordination of all federal response resources and forces in the Gulf Coast region. Later, Chertoff came under criticism for his incompetence in handling the Katrina response. 1,604 Americans died; many of those deaths could have been prevented. While Bush said afer the fact that "nobody could have anticipated the breach of the levees," a leaked video later established that both Bush and Chertoff knew that the levees would likely be breached well before the storm hit land, while there was still time to act on this information. Bush and Chertoff did not.

PAUL WOLFOWITZ was Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2001-2005. In 2005, Bush nominated him to be president of the World Bank. He lived in Israel for a year while his father, Jacob, taught at the Technion. His sister made aliyah and lives in Israel. He is a primary architect of the Iraq War.

DOUGLAS FEITH was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-2005. His father, Dalck Feith, was a Holocaust survivor. He has served on the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. He is also a primary architect of the Iraq war.

ELLIOTT ABRAMS served during Bush's first term in office as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. At the start of Bush's second term (February, 2005), Abrams was promoted to be his Deputy National Security Adviser. Under Reagan, after the Iran-Contra Affair, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress.

JOSHUA BOLTEN is the new White House Chief of Staff, elevated to this position in March, 2006. Formerly, he was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). According to the Stanford Law School Lawyer (magazine), Bolten "belongs to a local temple, tries to attend Sabbath dinner at his sister's house when he can on Friday nights, and doesn't eat pork."

DOV ZAKHEIM was Undersecretary of Defense from 2001-2004. He is an ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election campaign Zakheim served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of a group led by Condoleezza Rice. He has been an adjunct professor at Yeshiva University.

I. LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY is Jewish. (The "I" stands for "Irve.") He was former Chief of Staff and Assistant for National Security Affairs to Vice President Dick Cheney. He resigned after being indicted for obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements.

MARK D. WEINBERG served as Bush's Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs.

BRAD BLAKEMAN formerly served as lead advance representative for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign. He was later appointed the Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling. He formerly served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

JAY LEFKOWITZ formerly served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy at the White House. He is now Special Envoy on Human Rights in North Korea. He has previously served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Conference on Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

ARI FLEISCHER was formerly the White House Press Secretary.

RICHARD PERLE was formerly the Chairman of the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board (until 2003), and remains a member of that Board. Perle is said to be the person behind the US policy on Iraq. In a 2002 interview with PBS, he said that "[s]upport for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder. Now, it isn't going to be over in 24 hours, but it isn't going to be months either." (This was four years ago.) Perle advocated invading Iraq with only 40,000 troops, and complained about the calls by then Gen. Eric Shinseki to use 250,000 troops. On September 22, 2003 at a luncheon gathering at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, he stated that "a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.
God help us in November, 2006."

On his closing comment:
"(...)What should I make of this, as a Jew? One thing's for sure, these assholes give the rest of us Jews a bad name."+++