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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:09:27 EDT
Subject: Dr Anis Karam, Lebanese-American delegate of honor of the Republica Convention
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Dr Anis Karam, Lebanese-American delegate of honor of the Upcoming Republican Convention in New York
"I will represent the views of millions of Lebanese and Mideast Americans"
Seattle, New York Aug 30th, 2004
Lebanese American leader, Dr Anis Karam was invited by the leadership of the Republican Party as a delegate of honor to the New York Republican National Convention. Dr Karam, who met President George Bush in Seattle last week, will be joining Congressional and Party officials for four days in select meetings during the Convention. Dr Karam, from Seattle, is the Media Chairman of the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU) and a member of the WLCU delegation to the American Lebanese Coalition (ALC).
Dr Karam will be joined by M George Kassas, a Lebanese American Republican, member of the Financial Committee of the WLCU and the ALC. M Kassas, from Massachussets, has alread met President Bush and leads the New England Lebanese American Republicans.
Dr Karam will be leading the Mideast American delegation at the Convention, including Lebanese, Assyrian, Chaldean, Coptic, Arab as well as other ethnic groups. "We will represent the views of millions of Lebanese and Mideast Americans in this country. We will make sure to convey to the Republican Party's national convention and to President Bush the aspirations of more than 4 million Americans from Middle East descent."
Karam said, as he arrived to New York that "every Mideast American vote will count. We are making sure that our communities will be informed and will inform. In one month, the American public will have the opportunity to learn what we stand for. Our issues are very clear:
1. We support the War on Terrorism
2. We stand by democracy and freedom in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East
3. We are with America's Homeland security
Karam's office can be reached for interviews and statements at wlcuir@aol.com
President Bush.. "The freedom of Lebanon will soon be a reality'"
Washington State
During a fundraising dinner at a private home in Bellevue, Washington, President Bush met Dr. Anis Karam the Commission of Information and Communication of WLCU and his wife Julie.
After Karam introduced himself, he asked the President for his help in freeing Lebanon from Syrian occupation. He proceeded by saying ... "in the history of nations, the size of a land has never made a great nation.  It takes great leaders like you, Mr. President, to build a great nation and it's place in history. The highest of values including liberty, freedom, democracy and human rights are just beginning to have meaning with you as President.  We support all that you stand for especially the war against terrorism. Terrorism destroys human kind and freedom loving people. Lebanon has lived with the destruction of terrorism for the last thirty-five years. Terrorists crushed all that is sacred to us. They tortured and killed our children.  They slaughtered our elders.   And destroyed Lebanon. We are with your leadership full of hope that terrorism will be beaten. That freedom will shine once again.  And that democracy will fill the whole Middle East. Mr. President a free and independent Lebanon will be the center in the war against terrorism.  Free and independent Lebanon will be a huge asset and great help for the United States instead of being the source of terrorism under Syrian occupation.  We are here to do everything in our power to see that you are reelected. Our President, thank you!  God bless you. God bless America."
He responded by patting him on the back and saying well spoken, Mr. Karam, well spoken. We are going to win this war. The freedom of Lebanon will soon be a reality".
Karam told American Lebanese leaders: "During his  speech, I noticed the secret service approaching to stop me from speaking.  But President  Bush motioned for them to allow me to continue. I have learned from this experience with President Bush that if you have something worth saying and it comes from your heart he will make that same effort to listen."