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Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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October 06, 2004

Among the rotating reasons presented by President George Bush for liberating Iraq was the protection of our ally, Israel. Maybe President Bush didn't peer into Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's eyes long enough the last time he was here, because the new Iraq deems Israel an "enemy state."

Meanwhile, a former leading figure in the Iraqi National Congress party - the party led by Ahmad Chalabi - remained defiant after an Iraqi court indicted him Sunday for visiting the "enemy state" of Israel.

Mithal al-Alusi attended a conference there on terrorism last month and was subsequently expelled from the party.

"What madness is this?" he told The Associated Press on Monday, accusing the interim government of applying laws of Saddam's regime in his case. "They want to put me in prison with terrorists."
[Car bomb kills 10 Iraqis near Baghdad - AP -10-06-04]

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