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Claire Robinson: New page: Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (1928-2008, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's...

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Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (1928-2008, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. <ref>'Tom Lantos Profile', [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tom_lantos/profile.html ''Guardian Unlimited'' website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> <ref>'About Tom', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050129043128/lantos.house.gov/HoR/CA12/About+Tom/About+Tom.htm web.archive.org/Congressman Tom Lantos website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>

==A Record of Warmongering==
According to one analyst, “Lantos isn’t just a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war, he was one of its co-authors…Lantos has never met a war he didn’t like. His unblinking defense of Israeli policy gives him tunnel vision with the rest of the Middle East.” <ref>'Hawk Slated to Chair International Relations', [http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1392 Institute for Public Accuracy website], 14 November, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>

===Iraq===
Tom Lantos’ record goes back to the ‘91 Gulf War when he played a key role in the [[Human Rights Caucus]] (HRC) – a front for [[Hill & Knowlton]], the PR firm the Kuwaiti government had hired – where a girl named Nayirah gave false testimony about Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators and leaving them on the floor. This story was subsequently picked up by [[Amnesty International]] (though it retracted the story after the war) and subsequently propagated by the congress, Kuwaiti expats and other proponents of war. The harrowing testimony of Nayirah — purportedly a nurse at the hospital but in reality the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., [[Saud Nasir al-Sabah]] – played a critical role in getting congressional support for the war (The Kuwaitis donated $50,000 as thanks to HRC). <ref>'How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the US, the mother of all clients', [http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3589/us-iraq-lie.html geocities.com], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>

===Palestine===
According to ''The Jerusalem Post'', he represents Israel in countries with which it has no diplomatic relations. He was an enthusiastic supporter of [[Operation Defensive Shield]], Sharon’s war of terror on the Palestinians. <ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>

===Iran===
Already in 2006 he was gunning for war; he wrote an article “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.” <ref>'Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran', [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html ''The Huffington Post''], 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained. <ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>

===Lebanon===
Lantos said in Israel, at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, on August 27, 2006, that he will block aid promised by President [[George W. Bush]] to Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. He was meeting at the time with Israeli Foreign Minister [[Tzipi Livni]] after talks with Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]]. <ref>'Guests: Tom Lantos', [http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/3517 Charlie rose website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>

Lantos played a key role in building Democratic support for the [[Patriot Act]] and was one of [[Hillary Clinton]]’s prominent supporters. While he derived some of his prestige from being a holocaust survivor, according to [[Jeffrey Blankfort]], “His ‘history’ as a holocaust survivor has evolved over the years and it is only in recent years that he has claimed to have been a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Hungary which conflicts with his earlier story that he was given a Swedish passport and a safe place to live by [[Raoul Wallenberg]]”. <ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>

==Affiliations==
*[[AIPAC]] <ref>'House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, AIPAC Policy Conference 2007', [http://www.aipac.org/Publications/SpeechesByPolicymakers/Lantos-PC-2007.pdf AIPAC website], 12 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
*[[House's Human Rights Caucus]] <ref>Ron Kampeas, 'Remembering Tom Lantos', [http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?aid=637330 FJC website], 13 February, 2008. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>

==Resources==
*[[Morris Amitay]], [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742150570&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull My friend, Tom Lantos], ''Jerusalem Post'', 14 February, 2008.
*[[Thomas Dine]], [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203019393913&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Tom Lantos's liberal anti-authoritarianism], ''Jerusalem Post'', 16 February, 2008.

==Notes==
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-As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran], The Huffington Post, 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 13 Jan 2010)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of the Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained.<ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
+As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran], The Huffington Post, 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 13 Jan 2010)</ref>
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-As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>'Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran', [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html ''The Huffington Post''], 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of the Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained.<ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
+As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran], The Huffington Post, 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 13 Jan 2010)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of the Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained.<ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
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-As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>'Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran', [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html ''The Huffington Post''], 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained.<ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
+As far back as 2006 he was gunning for war with Iran. He wrote an article, “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.”<ref>'Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran', [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-tom-lantos/now-or-never-to-prevent-a_b_14182.html ''The Huffington Post''], 20 January, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref> Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the [[School of the Americas]], where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained.<ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
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 Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (1928-2008, born Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. <ref>'Tom Lantos Profile', [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tom_lantos/profile.html ''Guardian Unlimited'' website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> <ref>'About Tom', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050129043128/lantos.house.gov/HoR/CA12/About+Tom/About+Tom.htm web.archive.org/Congressman Tom Lantos website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>
-==A Record of Warmongering==
+==Comment and criticism==
-According to one analyst, “Lantos isn’t just a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war, he was one of its co-authors…Lantos has never met a war he didn’t like. His unblinking defense of Israeli policy gives him tunnel vision with the rest of the Middle East.” <ref>'Hawk Slated to Chair International Relations', [http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1392 Institute for Public Accuracy website], 14 November, 2006. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
+Paul George, director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, said about Lantos, “Lantos isn’t just a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war, he was one of its co-authors… Lantos has never met a war he didn’t like. His unblinking defense of Israeli policy gives him tunnel vision with the rest of the Middle East.”<ref>Paul George, [http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1392 Hawk Slated to Chair International Relations], Institute for Public Accuracy website, 14 November, 2006, accessed 13 Jan 2010</ref>
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 Lantos said in Israel, at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, on August 27, 2006, that he would block aid promised by President [[George W. Bush]] to Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. He was meeting at the time with Israeli Foreign Minister [[Tzipi Livni]] after talks with Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]].<ref>'Guests: Tom Lantos', [http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/3517 Charlie rose website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>
-Lantos played a key role in building Democratic support for the [[Patriot Act]] and was one of [[Hillary Clinton]]’s prominent supporters. While he derived some of his prestige from being a holocaust survivor, according to [[Jeffrey Blankfort]], “His ‘history’ as a holocaust survivor has evolved over the years and it is only in recent years that he has claimed to have been a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Hungary which conflicts with his earlier story that he was given a Swedish passport and a safe place to live by [[Raoul Wallenberg]]”. <ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
+While he derived some of his prestige from being a holocaust survivor, according to [[Jeffrey Blankfort]], “His ‘history’ as a holocaust survivor has evolved over the years and it is only in recent years that he has claimed to have been a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Hungary which conflicts with his earlier story that he was given a Swedish passport and a safe place to live by [[Raoul Wallenberg]]”. <ref>'Meet The F*ckers', [http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/ Fanonite.org], 17 March, 2007. (Accessed 2 April, 2009)</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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−	Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (1928-2008, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. <ref>'Tom Lantos Profile', [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tom_lantos/profile.html ''Guardian Unlimited'' website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> <ref>'About Tom', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050129043128/lantos.house.gov/HoR/CA12/About+Tom/About+Tom.htm web.archive.org/Congressman Tom Lantos website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>	+	Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos (1928-2008, born Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. <ref>'Tom Lantos Profile', [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tom_lantos/profile.html ''Guardian Unlimited'' website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref> <ref>'About Tom', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050129043128/lantos.house.gov/HoR/CA12/About+Tom/About+Tom.htm web.archive.org/Congressman Tom Lantos website], accessed 2 April, 2009.</ref>

	==A Record of Warmongering==		==A Record of Warmongering==